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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 3 Aug 2017

    US media: 39K famine deaths = 1 volcano death. 91 Pacific deaths = 1 European death. Our World in Data @maxcroserhttps://goo.gl/ZCnQHu 

    10:53 AM - 3 Aug 2017
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      1. In Thor In A Bikini We Trust!‏ @Highburyhero71 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @MaxCRoser

        Rowan Atkinson wrote a sketch on "not the nine o'clock news" where the nationalities of those who died where read out in order of importance

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      2. Stephen Warman‏ @StephenWarman 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @G_S_Bhogal @MaxCRoser

        This days a lot about journalists and even more about their readership.

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      3. Stephen Warman‏ @StephenWarman 3 Aug 2017
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        Or even: this SAYS a lot about journalists and their readesrship. I must get some smaller fingers!

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      1. Rob Bruce‏ @trebor155 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @MaxCRoser

        Yes and "cost" of 2003 invasion of #Iraq now upto 5000 US service personnel. Oh and 0.5 - 1 million Iraqis, so at least 100 = 1

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      1. kcz‏ @kcz100 3 Aug 2017
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        Go spend five or ten years in a country where all but the corrupt elite are vulnerable to natural disasters, human traffickers, lack of meds

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      1. Grey Area‏ @tardomatic 3 Aug 2017
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        People are unsurprisingly more interested in people like them, or in situations they can imagine themselves in.

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      1. Jim Bone‏ @bone_jimbone 7 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @MaxCRoser

        Media in general sell viewership/readership. Viewers want fast, unusual, dramatic, sensational news, not slow, repetitive reminders of loss.

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      1. James Thompson‏Verified account @JamesPsychol 4 Aug 2017
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        Case for saying that news should always be parochial and restricted to family and friends

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      1. Ben dG‏ @chemikills 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @MaxCRoser

        Perspective shifting! Implications for the Pacific and climate change attention too

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      1. Sarah  🥝‏ @itamer 3 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @MaxCRoser

        There was a fabulous chart like that after Princess Diana died. Really makes you analyse the media and your own bias

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      1. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 3 Aug 2017
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        Famine deaths are political disasters.

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      1. Michael Gooley‏ @gooleymichael 3 Aug 2017
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        I would like to see a shark attack chart! Pretty sure that's a one incident to one report world wide. The news loves them!

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      1. Aaron Gretsinger‏ @aaronomus 3 Aug 2017
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        Shocking! /s

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      1. Frank Church‏ @FrankChurch5 3 Aug 2017
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        true

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