Gap Minder Foundation News Today

"a," 20%, "b," 50%, "c," 80%. now for the answers. the worlds average life expectancy is not 50, not 60. 70 years. what percent of the adults in the world are literate, not 40%, not 60% but 80% and if you are spotting a trend, yes, 80% of the worlds 1-year-olds are vaccinated against measles. the questions all come from the gap minder foundation started by swedish professor hans rosling. he runs a series of ignorance tests. basically his point is that people understand the world by generalizing ...