--- title: Myths about the developing world date: "2007-02-18T12:00:00Z" categories: - my-best-links wp_id: 111 description: I explore Hans Rosling's talk on global development myths, highlighting his animated graphics that reveal hidden trends. He proves our misconceptions by showing that even experts often perform worse than random chance at identifying global statistics. keywords: [hans rosling, ted talks, data visualization, global development, population statistics, sir ken robinson] --- An excellent talk about the [myths we hold on the developing world](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080), supported by the most amazing graphics I've seen in a while. Among other things, the speaker (Hans Rosling) proves that chimpanzees are much smarter than the top Swedish students, and are slightly better than Swedish professors when it comes to knowing the developing world. The first one of the series that I heard was the [TEDTalk by Sir Ken Robinson](http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=ken_robinson). May be worth hearing all the [TEDTalks](http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=TEDTalks). --- ## Comments - **Anand Srini** _26 Feb 2007 9:42 pm_: i watched the presentaion. the animated graphics brings to life the trends hidden beneath the numbers which are otherwise so dull to look at.