Hans Rosling Summary

Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset summary

 

Hans Rosling uses statistics to expose myths about the developing world and the western world by showing the current relationship between income per person and health. According to students the developing world is large family short life and the western world is long life small family. Rosling states that college professors have been teaching students erroneous information about both the developing world and the western world. Hans Rosling uses bubble charts as a medium to inform his audience. Rosling presents the information by regions; once he breaks the regions up into countries we are able to see the vast differences. For example, in Africa the graph shows that there is a significant difference between Sierra Leone that shows the least amount of income (GDP of approximately $500) in correlation with the low probability of child survival(70%) and Mauritius which shows the greatest amount of income (GDP of about $10,000) and child survival (98%).

 

Hans Rosling shows his audience that fifty years ago there was a greater consistency between the amount of income and health but now some other countries caught up in the health section and not necessarily had higher income (e.g. Mexico). With his findings Rosling helps the audience understand how the world has advanced. This shows us (the audience) that we should investigate and keep up with current affairs instead of just accepting what we are told as the truth. I think Rosling’s presentation greatly informed the audience about current global information on health and economy.