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| Zusammenfassung | This set of flashcards helps university-level students learn English, focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and expressions from TED Talks. It covers topics like population growth, economic development, and statistical data presentation, with key terms such as "possibilist," "emerging economies," and "graphical data." The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to reverse the learning direction from the target language to the source language. Ideal for students and anyone improving fluency, this flashcard set aids in understanding complex concepts and enhancing communication skills at an advanced level. |
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| Karten | 62 |
| Lernende | 2 |
| Sprache | English |
| Kategorie | Englisch |
| Stufe | Universität |
| Erstellt / Aktualisiert | 21.07.2020 / 22.07.2020 |
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7. What does Dollar Street visualise?
How people live compared to their income
8. What is the best converter of sunlight to food?
Cassava
9. How do you get information in Africa?
You have to live with the people
10. What does Rosling say about African development over the last 50 years?
They did the best, developing from pre-medieval to Europe 100 years ago
11. What’s the difference between means and goals of development?
Means: how to develop; goal: what you aim for
12. What is the most important means?
Economic growth
13. What is the most important goal?
Culture and human rights
1. What has Rosling developed from (presentation technique)?
From digital to analog (IKEA boxes)
2. What was the world like in 1960?
Big gap between 1 billion rich in the west and 2 billion poor in the rest
3. What does Rosling think about the mindset of ‘the West and the rest’?
Mindset belongs to 1960! Not valid anymore
4. What is the size of the world population today?
7.8 billion
5. How many people live in the emerging economies?
4 billion (3 billion plus one billion which is already rich)
6. What is their family size? And what do they aspire to?
Two children per woman; bike, motorbike, car
7. What will happen in the future?
The best of the emerging economies will catch up with the west, all move to the right
8. What’s the difference in population growth between the poorest 2 billion and the others?
The poorest will double in size, the others will stay the same
9. How can population growth be stopped?
By helping them develop their economy
by increasing child survival
10. What leads to higher child survival?
Economic development (improved education and health)
11. What is Rosling’s hope for the future?
That population growth will be stopped at 10 billion
12. Rosling is neither an optimist nor a pessimist. What is he? And based on what is this?
possibilist, realistic data and UN projections
13. What is the role of the ‘old west’ in the new world?
Foundation for the new world
1. What basic question has Lonsdale had for a very long time?
- How can we speed up learning?
2. Why was Lonsdale successful in learning Chinese quite fast?
Because he applied his learning principle
3. Why is it important to be able to learn a new language fast?
Communicate to solve global problems, migration
4. What reasons does he give for his claim that you can learn any language in six months?
Humanity is capable of pushing borders
5. What does the comparison with drawing prove?
Everybody can learn drawing in five days if you are applying the right principles
6. Which two myths does he want to dispel?
You need talent to learn something; immersion itself does not work, you also need to make efforts
7. What are the five principles of learning?
- Content that is relevant to you;
- using tools;
- focus on meaning;
- physiological training;
- psycho-physiological state: relaxed, confident, happy, not sad, worried or afraid
8. Which seven actions does he recommend?
- Listen a lot;
- focus on meaning,
- start mixing
- focus on core
- get language partner
- copy the face
- direct-connect words to images
9. How much vocabulary do you need for daily conversation?
1000 words cover 85% of daily conversation; 3000 words cover 98%
1. What does the formula r > g lead to?
Higher concentration of wealth
2. What other forces influence wealth distribution?
Economic, social, political forces
3. What is his data based on?
Database from Paris School of Economics
4. What is fact 1?
Income inequality was higher in Europe in 1900; today it is much higher in the USA
5. What are the reasons for fact 1?
Changing supply and demand for skills; unequal access to skills in the USA, high salaries for top management in the USA
6. What is fact 2?
Wealth inequality is always much higher than income inequality
7. What is fact 3?
Wealth inequality is less extreme today, although the total quantity of wealth relative to income has recovered from the war shocks
8. What factors explain wealth accumulation?
power, prestige, dynastic factors (passing wealth to your children)
9. For most of mankind's history, r > g was true. Why?
In agricultural society, growth is 0 to 0.2, percent, while rate of return is traditionally 5 percent on land assets.
10. What factors influence(d) the balance between r and g??
Technology, war shocks, reconstruction, demographic growth
11. What has been the growth rate of top global wealth from 1987 to 2013?
6%
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