Very few people think the world is getting better. Here is why I think they are wrong: https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts/ …pic.twitter.com/M8Am95iLq2
The results of Rosling's quiz http://www.nature.com/news/three-minutes-with-hans-rosling-will-change-your-mind-about-the-world-1.21143 … were an eye-opener: ppl do worse than chance on most Q's!
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our entire media ecosystem (with some exceptions - like Our World in Data) which is the "fake news".
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IMO news should give more context, but the focus on "what's new" makes it hard to mirror the world
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If the highly educated are so ignorant - actually anti-informed - about the basics, it suggests to me that it's our
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but those results (& things like your tweet just now,
@MaxCRoser) have brought it home for me.
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