The mindset of factfulness | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG

In part 2 of a 6-part lecture, Hans Rosling provides the answers to the statistical questions posed to the audience and introduces the idea of "factfulness" as a way of thinking about the world based on facts. Watch the previous video to hear the questions and answer along at home: • An introduction to wor...
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[@NJWeb.Solutions]

This guy took the speak softly and carry a big stick statement quite literally

[@odd-steinararntzen886]

"When you are really worried and concerned about something, you go and look for facts"!

[@nyqqi]

''Thats why people can have strange ideas in rich countries - because they get good healthcare'' haha :D ... Hans Rosling was amazing!

[@jayakumar-R]

Good explanation given by this gentleman,. The stick he holds in his hand looks like a velkambu,.(war stick) Native of. South Tamil Nadu (India). People used to carry in hand during war/ warfront,.....

[@aryankarki7900]

Great

[@proudglobalist1099]

Wow

[@zainrizwanthegoat]

Rosling: 90% of girls go to- Charities: DID I STUTTER????!!!!

[@kingsleymichael7533]

Who came here after watching Bill Gates video on Factfulness. :)

[@chantzukit681]

Nerdnation

[@kingsleymichael7533]

:)

[@SoyJayP]

yeah, i just bought the book on Amazon

[@seanwebb605]

Oh I bounced around reading Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis which brought me to Steven Pinker. Richard Thaler, Danny Kahneman to Rosling. I finished Enlightenment Now and began Factfulness recently.

[@kingsleymichael7533]

Sean Webb Cool. That's a lot.

[@sawomirgut71]

Is it only me concerned about that boy who doesn't want to marry that girl next door either?

[@clairewinograd9478]

In place like India the "boy" next door is usually a 28-30 year old man who is ready to pay a dowry to marry that 14 year old neighbor. Not really a boy. The age difference between men and women is still usually over 10 years in most of these arranged marriages.

[@zainrizwanthegoat]

Hi 8C geography peeps

[@jzb5430]

sup

[@TEverettReynolds]

@12:04 "The fact the the number of children in the world has stopped increasing, is the biggest event in the history of mankind, that was ever completely missed by media and education..." ~Hans Rosling 2015. I doubt it was completely missed, Hans. As I have learned, you have to follow the money... and that statistic does not help any "aid organizations" get more money... I really think its just that simple...

[@xionkale3688]

Oskar does not sound like this at all...

[@bergurman3086]

Yeet

[@DemonetisedZone]

This has not aged well There is so much complacency here. Dont worry, relax everything is getting better 2022 now and this looks so dated and out of touch, like a therapy class for millionaires

[@kdmarrison8845]

Propagandist for the mega millionaire/ billionaire class; Don't worry, all is fine and dandy Inequality is just a figment of some people's imagination Bill Gates loved his book, enough said!

[@martinjimenez9343]

What is the best book on the topic of inequality? Rosling is trying to back his optimism with reasoning the whole optimists vs pessimists and emotion vs reasoning debates are very interesting to me.

[@Maledicted]

He never said there's no inequality - he said it's not nearly as bad as you think and he presented evidence for that.

[@Mattnesss]

It sounds like you didn't even watch the video. :(

[@clairewinograd9478]

You missed his point completely. The point is that we are still focusing on the problems of 30 years ago, not the new problems of today to make advancements. He says plainly that just because girls are attending primary school at a rate of 90% does not mean those schools are great schools or that the girls are able to continue to secondary school. We need to work with the data for what is NOW, not the preconceived notions that we have because we learned about this 30 years ago. He is right.

[@vicachcoup]

Factful? He sounds like he is having an emotional diatribe about various things.

[@martinjimenez9343]

Rational pessimist?

[@Maledicted]

Being emotional doesn't preclude being factful.