Written by John Lounsbury
Hans and Ola Rosling at TED Talks
Econintersect: How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know. Play along with his audience quiz – then, from Hans’ son Ola, learn 4 ways to quickly get less ignorant.
For many important questions about economic and social conditions, an astounding proportion of people are quite ignorant. Not only do they not know the correct answers but they think the wrong answers are correct.
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