Fear (and memes) get clicks
I’m always amazed by the disconnect between what we see in the news and the reality of the world around us. As my late friend Hans Rosling would say, we must fight the fear instinct that distorts our perspective: https://b-gat.es/2WvUqqp pic.twitter.com/SzXDFr4clj
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But heart disease is so *boring*...
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Not if you've got heart disease it isn't
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Respectfully disagree A death on a cancer hospital bed is not same as one due to bomb blast In case of terror Death is caused by others Those killed are innocent Think of their age profile State can save them Hue & cry on murders & terror attacks keep Govt alert. Save lives.
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interestingly, suicide rate is higher than terrorism and homicide combined.
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So is. One of the worst things of today is disinformation.
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I think the issue isn’t the amount of “disinformation”, but that people can no longer parse data, analyse it to turn it into information and live it to turn it into knowledge.
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This is super interesting.
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Read Factfulness by Hans Rosling
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