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But how many people know what they don't know? If you push someone to give you an answer to some question they don't know, that's different from someone that g
by perl4ever 5y ago
But how many people know what they don't know?
If you push someone to give you an answer to some question they don't know, that's different from someone that goes around thinking and acting as though they know the answer.
Only the latter seems like a real misconception to me.
- sdht0 5y agoPeople's estimates are informed by what they pick up (even subconsciously) from (social) media, books, movies, etc. And then they support initiatives/NGOs/government actions based on those beliefs. Gapminder is an attempt to show how outdated our view of the world are. The first time I had come across Rosling's TED talk (see my other comment), it did strike me how little I had actively looked into the state of the world and how the state is more optimistic than one can conclude from doomscrolling [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling
- perl4ever 5y agoThis sort of thing can get very political, very quickly. The people who like Gapminder, are they the type who like Bjørn Lomborg?