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Created / Updated 20.08.2019 / 20.08.2019
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6. What does Fried say are the two biggest distractions at work?

Meetings and managers

7. How does Fried feel about meetings?

Toxic, terrible, poisonous things during the day at work which also procreate (one meeting leads to the next).
8. What are his three recommendations for creating a more productive workplace?

No-talk Thursdays and more passive models of communication, using things like email and instant messaging

9. What is Fried’s final suggestion?

Just cancel that next meeting!

Yang Lan, The generation that's remaking China

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1. What do Susan Boyle and the Chinese vegetable vendor have in common?

Unlikely winners of a talent show
2. What does she say about being different?

We are all different, it is good having different perspectives

3. What does the story about her first job interview illustrate?

Chinese people had no idea about modern western society

4. What did Lan do at the audition for Chinese national television?

She challenged the tradition of pretty, sweet faces on TV and asked for independent minds to present

5. What was new about her TV program?

t was the first program to allow people to speak freely, from their own mind
6. What examples does she give of China embracing the world?

Shanghai expo, Olympic games of Beijing

7. What does she want to say with the microblog of the young Chinese woman?

People are very critical of government-backed institutions

8. What is the difference between social media and the traditional media in China?

Social media: open and free for everyone, traditional media state-controlled

9. What is different about the new young generation?

Good education, born under one-child policy, misproportion between men and women
10. What are big problems facing the young generation?

Apartments are very expensive, they have to support a large older generation

11. How long does it take a couple in China to pay off their apartment?

30-40 years

12. What are the problems of migrant workers? How many are there in China?

Bad working conditions, isolation, 200 million

13. What is the Engels coefficient and what does it show for China?

Cost of daily necessities, after falling for 20 years, it starts rising again
14. What does the Gini coefficient show?

Income inequality

15. How do the Chinese feel about corruption?

Strong public outcry

16. What do the young generation demand?

Social justice, fight against corruption

17. How does the government respond to public concerns?

They pass new laws to solve urgent problems
18. Why are the Chinese so keen on Western luxury brands and products?

Status symbols, sense of identity

19. What does she want to explain with the 'naked weddings'?

Many Marrying for love, not money. Many Chinese are not materialistic.

20. What does happiness relate to?

Happiness is not only an individual feeling. It also relates to a clean environment.

Hans Rosling, The best statistics you have ever seen

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1. How good were the answers of the Swedish students on child mortality?

Quite bad

2. How good were the answers of the medical professors?

Quite bad, at the level of chimpanzees

3. Why did they get their answers wrong?

Preconceived ideas

4. What ideas do the Swedish students have about the 'two worlds'?

West: small family, long life, rest: large family, short life

5. What are the two axes about in Rosling's statistics?

x-axis: fertility rate, y-axis: life expectancy,

6. What does the comparison between the USA and Vietnam show?

Vietnam is catching up with the USA

7. What mistake do people in the west make about development in Asia?

They underestimate the tremendous social change there.

8. What does the next graph (income distribution) show and what are the axes?

x-axis: income, y-axis: number of people: shows that most people are in the middle

9. What does the graph with child survival and GDP per capita show?

Linearity of GDP and child survival, rise of China, big differences within world regions

10. What’s the difference in development between Uganda, South Korea and Brazil?

It is easier to move up if the country is already healthy

11. What’s the danger of using average data for countries?

Huge differences within countries

12. What does Rosling criticise about the internet and available data?

Data is not available, not nicely presented

13. Who could benefit from better access to statistical data about the world?

Students, policy makers, corporate sector

14. What do the statistics about China and the USA show?

China is catching up with the USA

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