How did you do in the Gapminder Quiz? The correct answers are highlighted in bold at the bottom of this post below. If you didn't do too well, don't worry. Most of us (and I may have prepped you to answer differently based on my last post) don't actually do very well. As a matter of fact, at least in Rosling's initial studies, over 10,000 individuals were polled, and 80% knew less about the world compared to when chimpanzees took the test (who answered correctly 33% of the time). These statistics demonstrate one of the major claims that Rosling makes in Factfulness, that is that we generally skew data and trends and use selective stories to make people think that the world is getting worse. In fact, or at least according to Rosling and his team of investigators (and many other global health policy experts), the world is getting better.
Rosling claims that there are 10 gaps in our understanding of the world that prevent us from seeing the positive changes or progress in the world today. The rest of the book goes on to explain each of these 10 gaps in greater detail (I have attached a list of the gaps below, which can also be found on the Gapminder website).
Gapminder Quiz
1. In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school?
A. 20%
B. 40%
or
C. 60%?
2. Where does the majority of the world population live?
A. Low income countries
B. Middle income countries
or
C. High income countries?
3. In the last 20 years the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has?
A. almost doubled
B. remained more or less the same
or
C. almost halved?
4. What is the life expectancy of the world today?
A. 50 years
B. 60 years
or
C. 70 years?
5. There are 2 billion children in the world today aged 0-15 years old, how many children will there be in year 2100 according to the United Nations?
A. 4 billion
B. 3 billion
or
C. 2 billion?
6. The UN predicts that by 2100 the world population will have increased by another 4 billion people, what is the main reason?
A. There will be more children aged below 15
B. There will be more adults aged 15-74
or
C. There will be more very old people aged 75 and older?
7. How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last 100 years?
A. More than doubled
B. Remained about the same
or
C. Decreased to less than half?
8. There are roughly 7 billion people in the world today, which options more accurately represents where they live?
A. 1 billion in Europe, 4 billion in Asia, 1 billion in Africa and 1 billion in America.
B. 1 billion in Europe, 3 billion in Asia, 2 billion in Africa and 1 billion in America
or
C. 1 billion in Europe, 3 billion in Asia, 1 billion in Africa and 2 billion in America?
9. How many of the world's 1 year old children today have been vaccinated against some diseases?
A. 20%
B. 50%
or
C. 80%?
10. Worldwide, 30 year old men have spent 10 years in school on average, how many years have women of the same age spent in school?
A. 9 years
B. 6 years
or
C. 3 years?
11. In 1996 tigers, giant pandas and black rhinos were all listed as endangered, how many of these three species are critically endangered today?
A. 2 of them
B. 1 of them
or
C. none of them?
12. How many people in the world have some access to electricity?
A. 20%
B. 50%
or
C. 80%?
13. Global climate experts believe that over the next 100 years the average temperature will on average?
A. get warmer
B. remain the same
or
C. get colder?
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