Fake News and Fact Resistance - Ola Rosling

Ola Rosling presents at the Centre for Global Health at University of Oslo, Norway at a memorial seminar organized in honor of his father, Hans Rosling, founder of Gapminder and world renowned scholar.

[@utebescht4198]

I am so very sad about the passing away of this wonderful, enlighting person so soon, who brought knowledge to everybody. I have followed his lectures online from Germany whenever I could. Hans was not a simple educator - but a warmhearted, inspiring edutainer. Go on with the wonderful work - and I am sure- you do it brilliantly - your own way, Ola!

[@wyattearp190]

you're father was one of the greatest men that ever lived, bless you!

[@blakekate9793]

“Self criticism is more useful than source criticism.”

[@cricketthoffman9499]

He was an amazing man. May you have an easy trip walking in his footsteps.

[@goldslg001]

Thanks Ola. Thanks Hans~ Let's keep moving forward!!

[@RobsDunne]

You and your father were and are brilliant. I've appreciated how simply you presented such complex conversations and the application of humour to convey these details.

[@anthonyhenry8705]

Just received Hans' book Factfullness from my wife for Christmas and hurriedly went out to buy a copy for my brother. What a gift! We are being enlightened. Thank you! Teach the world!

[@balduran2003]

Ola, I'm sure you hear this all the time, but your father changed my life with statistics. Thank you for lending him to the rest of the world.

[@elorateq3672]

So sorry to hear of your father's death. He brought us data with a sense of humour. He will be missed.

[@Javo_Non]

Sorry but he didnt just brought us data, he teached reasons to care about data.

[@thomasm1964]

I'd never heard of Hans until just over an hour ago when I watched a video he presented about world population. What an inspirational speaker he was! Just from that one video, I gained such a strong sense of how warm and generous and intelligent your father was. A man to be proud of!

[@michaelxx7022]

Hans was an amazing speaker. I loved the cheers when he picked up his famous long pointer in the Berlin TED talk.

[@WendyDussault]

I bought the book Factfulness and I am so sorry for your Dad's passing but grateful you are carrying on his work the world needs it terribly.

[@a.mckenny6545]

Very much admired Hans Rosling. Truly inspiring. I love sharing his "Don't Panic" lecture with my students. Heartfelt condolences to the Rosling Family. Good Luck & God Bless continuing the work.

[@amaiaguijarro4642]

I love your shirt whit planets and constellations, Ola, but I love even more the work you are trying to carry out. Thank you! and I will never forget the first conference by Hans that I watched at TED: wise, full of humour and hope!

[@rodnet1974]

Rest in peace. Hans Rosling was a great teacher and an inspiring person - his teaching of how important facts are and how good statistics are important are of the greatest importance!

[@mwshaikh1382]

Ola and his father and his family.. they are amazing people. A gift for us humanity. We should support them at all levels!

[@_.aicha._316]

RIP Hans Rosling ! He made me like Statistics and have fun with them ! Thank you !

[@thorfriis6284]

I got the Factfulness book (in Norwegian) for Christmas and it promises to be a great read. The Rosling's have revolutionized public education by making statistics truly visual--the only way statistical data can be taken in. What a refreshing notion to "only carry facts for which you have supporting evidence". That implies we should keep most, if not all, of our opinions to ourselves most of the time. It is reassuring that Ola Rosling and his wife Anna are keeping Hans Rosling's legacy alive. We need fact-based discourse now more than ever in these times of internet memes and fake news.

[@gabfid3]

Withholding information is not fake news, but will effect the impression of the world.

[@timcollins1131]

Carry on the good work Ola.

[@odd-steinararntzen886]

How can anybody, 13 at the moment, dislike this page?

[@DailyArchetype]

Some people hate facts

[@kennethkrabat]

It makes me very happy that we have you.

[@ThomiX0.0]

Wonderful presentation Ola! One major misconception found, just one, but major..:-) Wisdom is not made. Not by thoughts, and so, not learned too. Without you're backup, of not so factual memory, gathered from the past..there might come some beautiful moments of seeing the reality, in a blink of an eye.. Might be..maybe, because there is no thought in the entire world 'making' it. Thanks for the video about ignorance, which comes 'gratis' with knowledge. :-)

[@AhmedBashendi]

Outstanding.

[@Finne57]

Brilliant! Are there any plans to work with UK teachers?

[@ebusdk]

I shared this video with one of my customers HR department, and they were shocked - almost scared - of the bubble they were living in.

[@hans-jurgenscholz4334]

I just love it... keep it up

[@adrianmuir2026]

It is great to hear some nice statistics for a change, but note that It now takes two working parents in the western world for a household to makes ends meet, instead of one. The significance of the 'facts' depend on what or who you are comparing with. In the west we have more and better things, but we now have to work harder and harder for those things which are basic to life.

[@DailyArchetype]

There needs to be more content on these 10 instincts.

[@user-sm8fq3bp2u]

Благодаря графикам и минимального знания английского это видео можно память. Теперь я поняла, что такое на самом деле глобальные фейковые новости. Но есть и хорошая новость - чем дальше тем лучше, мне оптимисту - бальзам на душу!)

[@SirThreepio]

The ignorance is a big problem because it is almost impossible to separate stupidness from evilness, burocracy from malice and strangers from enemies.

[@joedwillyx3d]

at 37:42 is the key. This is the big basic idea - turning Data into Wisdom. Data is results from actions that can be processed to produce Wisdom. The cycle repeats as application of Wisdom provides basis for action, which produces Data that can be incorporated into the base.

[@simonandre4773]

Does Ola's explanation on lower births refer to the "demographic transition"?

[@paxundpeace9970]

That is correct.

[@bobroberts7305]

25:44 the URL on the slide at this time in the video is incomplete and/or returns errors generally. When you include URLs in your slides it's a good idea to also include them in the description of the video so people can access them.

[@mgmartin51]

“This boy is ignorance, this girl is want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy.”

[@rodnet1974]

I really understand his not so good humor ... every time I read comments where people say "they stay poor because they have so many children" I link his father's video "Don't Panic". Their idea for a statistical facts think tank is amazingly important.

[@BeGioBijoux]

i am so very sorry he passed! So many people we could send in his place

[@HrRezpatex]

I love Ola Rosling`s work. But i must admit that after the years with virus mania, i have become much more sceptical towards vaccine, WHO and everything that have to do with globalism.

[@paxundpeace9970]

WE aren't a knowledge ....

[@lotus5096]

Regarding the survey about education. In the US the standard formative education is 13 years, labeled as K-12 meaning kindergarten and 1st through 12th grade. All citizens are required by law to attend up until the age of 15 or 16 by state, which is roughly 10th or 11th grade. Perhaps this question is askew for Americans because the level of education is not specified in the question. Many persons may think the question is in reference to higher education. In the US higher education is 2-4-6-8 or 10 years or more respectively toward their professional degrees. This is above and beyond the 13 years they have already completed. I suspect a single word, formative or primary education, added to the question would produce radically different results across all the countries and organizations surveyed, as all of these countries displayed are developed nations and have a minimum standard formative education system. As stated the more "educated" a collective group is, the more "ignorant" they are about world issues. This is actually a perfect example of that. I too was confused at the question as it was first presented. I silently selected the lower number because I made an assumption about higher education as opposed to formative education. Specifics are important, even in a generalized question.

[@georger6624]

The reason why they don't know they went to college call Just today teach lives that's what a journalist don't know

[@jonathansturm4163]

Ola, many thanks for keeping Hans' message alive. Like your father, I have a tendency to become angry when people reject the facts, and at highly selective reporting, but I'm learning to control my anger.

[@DidivsIvlianvs]

One bad statistic I love is the "poverty rate". In almost every country in the world the official rate is between 15% and 25%. And every year governments raise the income level of the poverty line to keep it between 15% and 25%. No matter what, the bottom 20% remains the bottom 20% no matter how much their absolute standard of living improves. If the poverty line of Chad were applied to the United States, the U.S. poverty rate would be 0.01% and the current U.S. poverty line applied to Chad would be 99%.

[@TlalocTemporal]

Poverty gap at $5.50 a day for the US and Chad: www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SI.POV.UMIC.GP/compare?country=td#country=td:us US, 2010: 1.3% Chad, 2011: 50.6% This means that 1.3% of Americans are living on less than 49.4% of Chadians. Fairly extreme differences, but not 3 orders of magnitude extreme. Besides, what you're talking about are *National* poverty lines. They reflect poverty in comparison to the best they could possibly do in that country. They are calculated based on what is necessary to live in that country. The national poverty lines tending to include between 10% and 40% population is (I'm guessing) because almost no country can eliminate poverty (for various reasons), and any country with more than 50% of their population in poverty is going to collapse soon.

[@SirThreepio]

Ignorance will collapse democratic societies !

[@britishbulldog8966]

So refreshing.’ It is what it is.’ should be a commandment. No problem can be solved and no injustice made right if the facts are unknown, ignored or hidden. Ola you are a credit to your father’s legacy. Truth is grateful as it stumbles bloody and beaten through the ether.

[@MrsSkaska]

Amazing!!?

[@bobroberts7305]

10:50 They call themselves "factual film makers" - people who decide what documentaries will be made and mass distributed, what those documentaries will say - and yet when asked key questions, 83% of them don't get their facts straight. These are the people who are trying to shape our beliefs, opinions and actions.

[@paxundpeace9970]

At least they more better then those form the news media conference and maybe slightly above the average.

[@pulsar22]

Statistics is a very curious and misleading thing. When people think that 200 years ago life expectancy is 30 years, they think that only a few people live past the age of 30. This is so wrong. The problem 200 years ago is that 50% of children are dying before they reach the age of 10. Thus, it depresses the statistics. But once past that age, most of the people who reach adolescent actually survive to live up to 60 years and even a few to 100 years of age. The biggest reason our global life expectancy shot up so quickly is that by vaccination and antibiotics we have made most children survive past the critical stages of life.

[@shawnburnham1]

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[@georger6624]

Yes but the Amish have like seven children today and the extreme Christians have like a lot of children and acidic Jews very religious have a lot of children to today why is that

[@bobroberts7305]

Ola, your bar for removing a question should not be so low. "Better than random" is not near good enough. I would suggest 50% is not good enough. Keep the questions, maybe in a secondary set, not your primary, but don't discard them just because those answering are "better than the chimps", because that's not near good enough.

[@FrederickFNNoronha]

31:37: Is it that fewer children are born when people "talk about sex"? I thought it was the dramatic push of population control technologies on the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s that caused this decline. In our younger days everyone spoke about the 'population bomb'. Now it's the 'demographic divident'! Also, are we to assume that the birth rate will remain the same to enable the population fill-up?

[@Orf]

18:00 if you grow up in richest country you are the usually the most ignorant

[@verschlusssache6283]

10:18 Mr. Rosling is wrong about that. It is still lying. I too once had a 3-day-long internet argument about that. Turns out I was wrong too.

[@issiacmoonstroller6482]

I will always miss your father. I think Capitalism drives the world economy and those with money are not so interested in changing things for the good of all. Until we can make the whole world into the socialist order, we will continue to exhaust the resources till the civilized world collapses. We can change but we need to get started fast. I suggest everyone start by keeping their money in their pocket and stop feeding the money monster. Make do with less, travel less, become more self-sustaining. Imagine being a billionaire on day and waking up to discover you are now a millionaire and can't stop the downward slope because the people you depend on are recycling, staying home and making due without your products anymore? Imagine being a bank and no one wants to borrow your money?

[@Helyzz82]

I don't know why you would blame (notice 'blaming') this on capitalism; socialist organisations are doing exactly the same. Actually, they are probably even abusing this more than others if you look at the character of the questions that were answered wrongly. The problem is humans not understanding the flow of news and how to (dis)trust it, and not being capable of thinking globaly but still remain in their small bubble of truth, which actually makes humans less fit for global domination of the planet.

[@missanna208802]

Soo..what happens to the jobs of all the people who aren't making the stuff you're not buying anymore?

[@TlalocTemporal]

@@missanna208802 -- They get other jobs. That's how industries change. That's how industries *have been* changing since the industrial revolution.

[@missanna208802]

Jobs like what, for example? You deleted your comment about holding onto money and not buying stuff--do you mean that you should buy less stuff and spend your money on services instead? Or just that everyone should hold onto their money period, in which case I ask again, if there are no customers to buy stuff, what exactly is going to drive a market for things that people aren't buying and what incentive is there for employers to pay employees for jobs that serve no purpose?

[@jean-marclamothe8859]

😂😂🤣🤣 the perfect example of ignorance!

[@decyrano]

Your parents named you Hello, knowingly or as a happy coincidence? Is life more, or less valuable than convenience? Should the price for removing a life increase or decrease, for the world situation to be "better"?

[@bobroberts7305]

24:50 "You know how terrible men are in the university, in school. I can imagine tons of stories about how men misbehave." Though, more and more, what we're finding when we bother to care about what's true, and once we make an effort to see if what we're told is true, is that most of those stories are either completely fraudulent or at best a deliberate exaggeration of reality. Aside from a very few bad actors, most claims of male excess turn out, as you should well know, to be untrue as told. The average male is not nearly as bad as is claimed. A great example ripped from today's headlines in the U.S. is this completely and obviously fraudulent attempt to ruin the good name and reputation of a stellar individual all for political and ideological reasons, where a woman has claimed she can't remember the day, month or year, or where an event happened, or what the names of other people who were there are, or how she left the scene of the event, but she claims to be SURE that one man did this and another saved her, yet both those men say IT NEVER HAPPENED even though she portrayed one of them as a hero who saved her from a terrible fate, and yet he still says IT DID NOT HAPPEN. Plus she's had 36 years to bring this up and only chose to do so as a last ditch attempt to ruin this man's reputation a key time politically. And it's important to note that every single other woman who has come forward and stated that they knew him every moment from when this incident allegedly occurred until today says he's never done any such thing and actually always displayed exactly the opposite behavior. And yet, because some want and even NEED to believe that their desires are more important than this man's reputation, even though when one of theirs is accuses of similar things they say "it doesn't matter, get over it", suddenly allegations made WITH NO SUPPORTING EVIDENCE, from 36 years ago, which were not made public until a key time politically, are a big deal? Talk about FAKE NEWS? The desperate and clearly false complaints being made in a despicable attempt to derail a perfectly valid nomination are the worst sort of FAKE NEWS imaginable. Where were all these people when mountains of evidence of sexual misconduct by Bill Clinton were presented? They were all actually saying it made him a better person, in their eyes. My, how their views have changed.

[@bobroberts7305]

10:05 "It's not lying if you are absolutely wrong yourself"... yes, it is. You're still telling a lie. It may not be intentional, deliberate. There is a difference only in motive between a lie told due to ignorance and a lie told deliberately, when you know better. An ignorant lie has the same ill effect - furthering an untruth - as a deliberate one.

[@thomasfoley2527]

The definition of lie is "an intentionally false statement." So a falsehood told unintentionally is, in fact, not a lie. It doesn't mean that what you are saying it true, it just means you aren't lying, by the definition of the word.

[@DidivsIvlianvs]

@@thomasfoley2527 It is a lie if you knew or should have known.