About the Interview
In a cooperation between the internet community Reddit and TED,Reddit users got to put their questions to Hans Rosling. In this video response he answers the top 10 questions with explaining graphs.
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The 10 questions:
1. What is your min is the number one lesson to be learned from your way of looking at data; what ought our governments do that they are not doing.
/numberwang
2. If you could present your stats to a panel of any five people in the world, who would you chosse and why?
/reubensandwich
3. In my experience, people do not understand statistics and will never change their opinion based on statistics, I would like to ask if you agree.
/universalsprout
4. What are the most startling or intriguing correlation you have encountered while playing with different values on the the x and y axis at gapminder.org.
/rugs729
5. What do you think of the state of statistics education in high school and colleges?
/kunjaan
6. Would you be willing to help the WhiteHouse present the Healthcare budget in such a way as to make it easier for the average person to understand the value of a public option or single payer plan?
/gerskerski
7. Do you think CUDA is an important step in the path of better and richer visualizations of data?
/playeren
8. What are your future plans for Gapminder?
/papper
9. What can bra done to encourage governments and international organizations to more actively and effectively collect and publish vital statistics?
/bordergroves
10a. But how do you recommend that I or we help the “bottom billion”? I’m wondering about practical ways the “top billion” can assist the “bottom billion” with small units of organizations.
/Phatlikebuddha
10b. What’s it like knowing so many on reedit have intense nerd crushes on you?
/Stranger2love