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100 Positive News from 2023
Many bad things happened in 2023. You already know them. Many tragic events were so terrible we will never forget them and we shouldn’t. You can easily find them all over the news. But the good things that happened are much harder to encounter, and it is easy to get the…
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The Worldview Upgrader – Gapminder launches a groundbreaking new service to fight misconceptions
PRESS RELEASE 30 NOVEMBER 2020 Today, Gapminder launches a new free educational service called the Worldview Upgrader, which will help people and organizations realize their ignorance and rid themselves of common misconceptions. For many years, Gapminder has tested the public…
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People are systematically wrong about the world!
PRESS RELEASE 23 NOVEMBER 2020 Now Gapminder has a brand new knowledge test about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where people score 82% wrong! “Time and time again, our tests show widespread and systematic misconceptions about the world around us. We are now…
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How wrong are you about the SDGs? Soon we’ll know..
We are soon launching a new free service to fight common misconceptions about all the UN goals with hundreds of new fact questions most people are wrong about. Sign up here to help us test it before it launches, or stay tuned for updates on twitter, facebook, linkedIn or…
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Gapminder in collaboration with AFRY for a fact-based worldview
Today we are happy to announce that Gapminder has entered a collaboration with AFRY. AFRY’s press release says: AFRY has entered into a long-term collaboration with the Gapminder Foundation to identify, highlight and counteract ignorance. As part of this, a new knowledge test…
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When are Corona-deaths good news? Corona video #4:
This is the fourth Corona video in a series listed here. Every day we hear about more Corona deaths, and it always feels like bad news. But if you follow the weekly change, even the peak of the week might be a drastic decline compared to what we expected. You can download the…
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The delay from infection to death, Corona video #3:
This is the third Corona video in a series listed here. In this film we present our estimate of a common duration, which is several days shorter than the average duration of 26 days. Our purpose is to have a useful rule of thumb for what delay to expect between a behavioural…
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The best way to track the Pandemic, Corona video #2:
This is the second Corona video in a series listed here. In this video Ola Rosling explains how the weekly multiplier of deaths let us keep track of the pandemic and compare it across countries and over time. The virus is capable of multiplying itself amongst us, and kill us. We…
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The main Corona risk group is not the size people think
Almost everyone answered this wrongly: “Globally, how many are 65 and older? A.10%, B.30%, C.50%”. We tested 20 thousand people in 32 countries with Ipsos-MORI in 2019: The results were terrible! But we were happy yesterday to see that our Facebook followers scored much…
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Corona is canceling flights but not teaching us to solve global warming
We asked this question to people in the UK and to our followers: — How much of all greenhouse gas emissions comes from airplanes? In this video Ola Rosling (co-founder of Gapminder) shows that many are probably wrong about this, which can lead to great disappointment for people…