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Living With the WRONG Data.
Sometimes I’m misunderstood by people. But, that’s okay.
People can only use the information that they have.
I recently completed a great audiobook called Factfulness.
There were many different instincts that were highlighted throughout the book. Rosling wrote, “We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to. That people have power and agency. Otherwise, the world seems confusing and scary.”
What do we believe? Often different things.
You might believe that the best way to increase child survival in the world is by constructing more hospitals in what were explained as level 1 or 2 countries. However, as the data showed, the best way to increase child survival rate is by educating women.
By increasing the number of mothers who are literate, they can then read the directions for jars of pills. The best way to first increase child survival rate was shown to be increasing education. As a result, fewer children fall ill in the first place.
But, what if after seeing the data, someone is adamantly opposed?
