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The best stats you've ever seen - Hans Rosling

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You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

When Rosling talks about his students’ understanding of child mortality and the developing world, he says that the problem “was not ignorance; it was preconceived ideas.” How do the results of the test he gave his students support this? When you think about how students in your school or community understand other countries, do you see evidence of ignorance, preconceived ideas, both, or neither—and why is that?

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