![]() ![]() ![]() No matter his audience (politicians, scientists, or the average person on the street of any country), people, without fail, scored worse on Rosling’s test than chimpanzees picking answers at random. ![]() Rosling compiled a list of thirteen easy-to-answer, fact-based questions about economic, medical, and environmental progress. After learning that his class of advanced medical students had very wrong misconceptions about the world, he set out to test if the same misconceptions persisted in other groups. Hans Rosling, a Swedish doctor, discovered the trend of global ignorance in the mid 1990’s. ![]()
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