Hans
Rosling is a statistician who believes that the greatest invention in the world
was the laundry machine. After his grandmother received her
first laundry machine, she found enough time to teach him two languages. He is
also the inventor of the gap finder, which gives the ability to compare different
countries and their economic diversities. The one thing he measured as a
statistician, informally, of course, is how educated the media was how
educated they were on the number of children around the world who had been inoculated
for diseases like measles. The result was that the media needed to be more informed than the general public, and less than 25% of everyone
knew the correct answer. The information people receive is
skewed by personal bias, outdated facts, and news bias. This coupled with a natural intuition, in part, is why we as a species are falling future behind
even statically speaking, getting the correct answer by chance. The importance of being adequately informed has
risen on the projection of economic growth is moving further away from the
traditional western preconceived notion that has stood for generations. This
means that to compete globally, a person needs to have the best possible information, and only being right 25% of the time will help anyone become successful. Going off this information, does it make sense to be informed of global changes? The only way this would not be important is if the projected plan was that
human civilizations were not planning on living on this planet in future
generations. The moral of this article is to look to the future for yourself
and make decisions now for your children’s future.
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