If you are skeptical about atheist Michael Shermer's claims that life has gotten much better for many people on this planet, you are not alone in your skepticism.
That's where Hans Rosling (our favorite Swedish statistician) comes in. He found that most people have some inaccurate information about the world, so he created Gapminder to educate them. Graphics and moving charts visually show fact-based global statistics because:
"Almost nobody knows the basic global facts!"
Check out one of Hans' talks, "The World May Not Be as Bad as You Believed". .
(cont'd tomorrow)
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