SOCI 2275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Gapminder Foundation, Global Health
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Did a pretest and one of the questions was which country had the highest child mortality of these five pairs. The students got 1. 8 out of 5 answers right on average. The swedish top students problem wasn"t ignorance, but preconceived ideas. Made software to show fertility rate and size of population of countries. Western world to them was long life small family and third world was short life large family. Using un statistics showed that all countries slowly have moved to longer lives and smaller families. Without looking at data we underestimate tremendous change in asia which was social change before economic. Best projection from world bank is that we won"t have a divided world, but most people in the middle. Have to invest in health, get kids in schooling, educate the population. Gapminder- software that links data sets, liberating un data. Need to make data searchable, but many say its impossible.
