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Category English
Level University
Created / Updated 21.07.2020 / 22.07.2020
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1. What basic question has Lonsdale had for a very long time?

 

  1. 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?

  1. Content that is relevant to you;
  2. using tools;
  3. focus on meaning;
  4. physiological training;
  5. psycho-physiological state: relaxed, confident, happy, not sad, worried or afraid

8. Which seven actions does he recommend?

  1. Listen a lot;
  2. focus on meaning,
  3. start mixing
  4. focus on core
  5. get language partner
  6. copy the face
  7. 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%

12. What measures does Piketty suggest for closing the gap between different groups?

Financial transparency, international transmission of banking information, global registry of financial assets, global coordination on wealth taxation, progressive wealth tax rates (inflation, expropriation, wars)

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, like chimpanzees

3. Why did they get their answers wrong?

Preconceived ideas, prejudice

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 big changes 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

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

S-Korea very fast because it was 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

15. What is the advantage of graphical data presentation?

Easy, fast to understand

1. What did the UN do with their databases?

They opened them to the public

2. What happened to many children in the 19th century?

1/5 died before the first birthday

3. What’s happening in emerging economies today? And who are they?

They are healthy and educated, but behind in economics; they are India and many other Asian countries, Latin American countries, Arab countries

4. What is the car race about?

Japan, USA and Sweden in terms of health: Japan wins the race

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