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human sciences ted talks, the best stats you've ever seen (world as…
human sciences ted talks
the best stats you've ever seen
child mortality - in one number is twice as big as in the second
1.8 out of 5 guessed
graph 1) size of a country its population 2) axis are fertility rate and expectancy of birth
developed countries - small families & long lives, developing countries - large families & short lives
when graph moves - from 1960's to present all the countries move towards small families & long lives
world as we(western world) and them (third world) how outdated perception of our world is
underestimation of tremendous change of asia
no gap between rich and poor
we generalize everything
dont use average data
we cant discuss something based on average data
regional averaged data won't be beneficial in finding solutions as we need more detailed approach
another graph world distribution of income + different countries + time difference
the richest 20% percent take 74% of all money & the poorest 20% take 2% of the money & the middle one (majority) has 24% of income
africa and OECD (the riches) overlapping and latine america has everything
previously poverty in asia was a problem but it changed and it will be changing towards majority in the middle
another graph GDP per capita and child mortality + time
linearity is very strong between money and child survival
sun Saharan africa in the lower left corner
if we split every country we can see there is tremendous difference (sierra leone and Mauritius
if we split every country we get big span ( the riches and the poorest)
when we split every region it does show very big span (even between the neighbors)
countries tend to use their money better than they used to
change data bases system
we need to change the way databases are represented
free, searchable publicly funded data
How not to be ignorant about the world
deaths from natural disaster in the world
Sweden 12% correct
Ted 30 % correct
Chimps 33% correct
how income has changed
we are ignorant of the world and not willing to get into the details of the data
advice on how not to be ignorant
our sense perception
The psychology of evil
Lucifer and the piece of art
US military's violence in Iraq
the evil of power
everyone are heroes
Milgram's experiment
the power of authority
Stanford experiment
prison
exploring the mind of a killer
environment, genes, brain damage + timing
each one of serial killers were damaged at orbital cortex
specific violence gene sex linked that's why majority boys/men are psychopathic killers
to activate that gene before puberty you should be involved in something very traumatic
in the world full of violence this gene got concentrated in a specific area
author discovers that on his father's side there have been lots of murderers
he started scanning and testing all his relatives
Progress is not a zero sum game
History is an arrow and points at something positive
evolution from cells to multicellular organisms
cultural evolution
evolution of ideas
complex societies
Stonehenge
non-zero sumness
tennis - singles (win-lose) and doubles (win-win)
non-zero sum behavior in life
history is net positive
moral progress
2500 years ago a greek city did not perceive another greek society human beings
but then Persians became subhuman
capitalism
a non-zero sum game
net positive
Muslim and Western world
terrorism
