HackerHow not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling
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The Roslings use multiple-choice questions about global distributions to expose how audiences miss the middle of a population. Their rule of thumb asks where the majority might be, while explicitly allowing exceptions.
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Now, we miss the majority. When you answer, you answer according to the worst places, and there you are right, but you miss the majority.They're only rules of thumb, so of course they don't apply to everything,