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200 countries, 200 years, 120,000 data points, 4 minutes…
Make ^ | 12/5/2010 | By Sean Michael Ragan

Posted on 12/01/2013 6:37:24 PM PST by Islander7

…and a pretty sweet Minority Report-esque dynamic infographic (“infomotion?”), to boot. The point? The world today has more than its share of problems, but we can all be thankful it isn’t the world of 200 years ago.

The charming Swede is Hans Rosling—physician, statistician, and host of BBC 4′s The Joy of Stats. Pretty much everything about this video makes me happy, not least of all that the Brits have a TV program celebrating statistics itself.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: capitalism; economy; progress
Video at the link. Pretty interesting stuff.
1 posted on 12/01/2013 6:37:24 PM PST by Islander7
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To: Islander7

He assumes colonization suppressed development of countries such as India, etc.

And Africa. Just along for the ride on the coattails of the rest of the world.


2 posted on 12/01/2013 6:44:15 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Islander7

Hans lost all credibility with me when he backed the IPCC “data” on globull warming. If that vouches for his analytical skills he is either an idiot or on the take.


3 posted on 12/01/2013 6:51:49 PM PST by Thom Pain (U.S. Constitution is a CONTRACT! : $70 TRILLION unfunded...)
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To: Thom Pain

Specifically:

He commends the IPCC AR5 report as being “as good as science can do”. He says the difficulties of communicating the uncertainties in climate science are far greater than for other science communication problems that he has been involved in professionally, such as smoking and cancer. He goes as far to say that, in this regard, climate science will be a model for other sciences. That’s high praise indeed from one of the world’s expert science communicators.

From: http://www.skepticalscience.com/rosling.html


4 posted on 12/01/2013 6:56:56 PM PST by Thom Pain (U.S. Constitution is a CONTRACT! : $70 TRILLION unfunded...)
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To: Islander7

Interesting


5 posted on 12/01/2013 7:04:53 PM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: AlmaKing

India and China accounted for over 80% of the world’s GDP for much of history. Purely based on economic numbers, British control weakened the Indian economy and Britain specifically introduced policies to curtail manufacturing in India, preferring instead that India imported clothing from Manchester.

Much of Indian industry today is thanks to private entrepreneurship and Russian and American assistance during post-Independence years.

The author’s data and graphs support the above.


6 posted on 12/01/2013 7:10:40 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: Islander7

But the greenie Gorebalists say this is unsustainable even though it is the 200 year trend. They want the vast majority to return to the 200 year ago lower left while they alone occupy the upper right.


7 posted on 12/01/2013 10:02:25 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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