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7. People on level 4, because of their media

8. What should the number be compared to. Get things in proportion.

1. Rosling said that the Danes eat larvas, while the Swedes do not eat them in order to explain to the locals why he couldn’t eat them.

2. Travel

3. Keeps richer patients away who have time-consuming demands for expensive treatments

4. 1972 in Bangalore. He noted that the 4th year medical students in India knew a lot more than Swedish students in medicine.

5. It shows the living conditions of various levels of income based on basic daily items such as toothbrushes, toilets, sofas, roofs)

6. Look for differences within groups and similarities across groups, question the term ‘majority’ (51 to 99%), beware of exceptional examples, assume you are not ‘normal’.

7. Assume others are smart. The Salhis are building their house over a long period, constantly investing in material as they can afford only a part at a time.

8. Babies shouldn’t lie on their backs like soldiers as they could suffocate on their own vomit. Turned the baby onto tummy

9. Recognising when a category is being used in an explanation and recognising that categories can be misleading

1. A man claiming that Nigerian culture will never let them make their society modern. Example of a static view at an investors’ conference in Edinburgh

2. Rocks. But while rocks do not move, countries, nations, religions and people are in constant transformation.

3. Africa has made huge progress over the last 60 years, reducing child mortality fast.

4. Iran which has had fast improvements in health and education ad stopping population growth

5. Income

6. To look after in-laws and any children

7. Macho values are disappearing also in Asian and African countries with social and economic progress.

8. Talk to grandpa, update data and knowledge

9. According to Rosling, Africa would have escaped extreme poverty. But according to her, this was no vision for Africa. Her vision was that Africans would be equal to Europeans. His grandchildren would visit Africa and travel on high speed trains there. But she wanted her grandchildren to be tourists in Europe and not unwanted refugees. 

1. Political and professional ideology (free market, equality, etc.)

2. Just as bad as normal people because they are only experts in one field.

3. Exaggerate and have a singular perspective

4. We need statistics and numbers, but not numbers alone – observing

5. Cuba’s Minister of Health. Rosling thought that Cuba’s ideology held it back from making economic progress.

6. Absence of basic public health insurance, rich insured patients going to doctors too often, running up costs, poor patients can’t afford inexpensive treatments and are dying younger than they should.

7. Both are caught in a single-perspective mind-set.

8. Liberal democracy although evidence does not support this stance as many countries have made enormous progress without being democracies.

9. Hammer and nail, toolbox (No one tool is good for everything, be open to ideas from other Fields)

1. Big pharmaceutical companies like Novartis do most research on rich people’s illnesses, not on illnesses that affect the poorest. However, who’s to blame? (CEO, board of directors, shareholders, pension funds?)

2. Ignore blame instinct, refuse to find a simple reason or ‘the bad guy’ to explain why something bad has happened.

3. Was able to gain interest on early payment of medicine as money was sitting in bank account

4. They have the same mega misconceptions as everyone else.

5. Immigration policies made by us, living in Europe. Our immigration policies are responsible for the drownings of refugees.