How bad is the world? - a quiz

James R said:
When do we get the answers?
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only 3 answers so far thats not much data to work with
so i will add mine

1. C
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. B
6. B
7. B
8. C
9. B
10. B
11. C

i googled 1 part question which influenced 1 answer but would not have changed the outcome based on a change in my opinion on the same answer once i stopped to think about it more deeply

then googled another after posting
i spent approximately 1 minute reading(5 to 10 seconds) & 1 minute thinking on each question
 
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Here are the answers:

1. In all low-income countries across the world, how many girls finish primary school?
A: 20%
B: 40%
C: 60%

2. Where does the majority of the world population live?
A: Low-income countries
B: Middle-income countries
C: High-income countries

3. In the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population liviing in extreme poverty has ...
A: almost doubled.
B: remained more or less the same.
C: almost halved.

4. What is the life expectancy of the world today?
A: 50 years
B: 60 years
C: 70 years

5. There are 2 billion children in the world today, aged 0 to 15 years. How many children will there be in the year 2100? A: 4 billion
B: 3 billion
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 to 74)
C: There will be more very old people (age 75 and older)

7. How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last hundred years?
A: More than doubled
B: Remained about the same
C: Decreased to less than half

8. How many of the world's 1-year-old children today have been vaccinated against some disease?
A: 20%
B: 50%
C: 80%

9. Worldwide, 30-year-old men have spent ten years in school on average. How many years have women of the same age spent in school?
A: 9 years
B: 6 years
C: 3 years

10. In 1996, tigers, giant pandas and black rhinos were all listed as endangered. How many of these three species are more critically endangered today?
A: Two of them
B: One of them
C: None of them

11. How many people in the world have some access to electricity?
A: 20%
B: 50%
C: 80%


The correct answer to almost every question was the most optimistic answer provided.


Scores:

Me 0
Virginia 0
Rich 0
James R 0
Joan 9.1%
Garry P. 27.3%
Marianne 27.3%
(A monkey 33.3%)
Clueless 54.5%
Rainbow 54.5%
Sarkus 100%
Seattle 100%


The average score was 34%.

This is almost the same score that a monkey would get if he were throwing bananas at a board with three options on it (33.3%).


Here's the kicker: the low answers to this test do not reveal ignorance - what they reveal is a conscious pessimisim. Generally, people think the world is much worse than it really is.

The answers provided may well have been true 30 years ago, but the world has changed - and changed a lot - in the last few decades. (I think the most stunning fact is that women of age 30 have received statistically almost the same number of years of education as men.)


This is awesome news for us idealists, who still think the world can be a good place to live.


If this interests you, read the book Factfulness: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness

and browse the data at https://www.gapminder.org/
 
DaveC426913 said:
Rainbow 54.5%
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i like that number :)

DaveC426913 said:
This is almost the same score that a monkey would get if he were throwing bananas at a board with three options on it (33.3%).
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when life serves you bananas, dont throw them away

sounds a bit like
couching your potatoes to make potato salad for the ass kissers of those whom hold all the power
DaveC426913 said:
in the last few decades. (I think the most stunning fact is that women of age 30 have received statistically almost the same number of years of education as men.)
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upper class ego guilt splain booboo bandages
in a quiz ...
splaining how optimism is the best cure for poverty

im not buying
but thanks for offering
 
Interesting, DaveC.

I figured that with 1 billion people in India and another significant number in China, that would tend to skew the results towards poverty, lack of education and so on, especially once we add in some other large low-income nations. But maybe if we put all of them together, maybe we're still only talking about 2/7 to 3/7 of the world's total population. So I guess there's more people overall who live in middle to high income nations.

Also, as you say, there has been some progress over recent decades. China, in particular, has raised a portion of its population out of poverty.
 
James R said:
Interesting, DaveC.

I figured that with 1 billion people in India and another significant number in China, that would tend to skew the results towards poverty, lack of education and so on, especially once we add in some other large low-income nations. But maybe if we put all of them together, maybe we're still only talking about 2/7 to 3/7 of the world's total population. So I guess there's more people overall who live in middle to high income nations.

Also, as you say, there has been some progress over recent decades. China, in particular, has raised a portion of its population out of poverty.
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Rounding to sevenths, 4/7ths of the population live in Asia.

But 90% of those populations do not live in extreme poverty (vertical dotted line):


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https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$m...edTypes:null;;;;;;&chart-type=mountain&url=v1
 

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