Which country has the higher child mortality of these pairs:
Sri Lanka or Turkey
Poland or South Korea
Malaysia or Russia
Pakistan or Vietnam
Thailand or South-Africa
The correct answers are highlighted in bold.
I would have gotten 2 out of 5 on this test. How about you?
I know I'm a little late with this: Originally Hans Rosling's speech at Le Web 3 conference came to my attention sometime around christmas. The speech helps clear out some very deep-rooted misconceptions of the world we tend to have, growing up in the "first world" and the way the data is visualized using gapminder is really stunning.
This second one is much older but very interesting, too.
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