Stats that reshape your world-view

Hans Rosling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w


lupisastartes1 1 year ago
Why isn't this shit better advertised? Serious - there is so much to expand the mind. If a good advertiser was called in they could set it out so that someone typed in the statistical probability of sex with a nipple slip celebrity and get this instead. In this day and age this is even more needed.
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TheLivirus 10 months ago
Ironically, Gapminder's statistics visualization software Trendalizer was aquired by Google three months after this talk. And even more so, I haven't seen any ads ever since. :/
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