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Outdated mental models equip us poorly to understand the world as it really is. Hans Rosling helped transform our assumptions

Submitted by nicko2 on 24 février 2017

The death of Hans Rosling was greeted with universal sadness in the aid world. It wasn’t just that Rosling was a deeply decent person and a bona fide humanitarian. The aid world loved Rosling because he made aid policy discussions look much more interesting than they actually are.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/feb/19/the-world-is-stuck-in-the-past-hans-rosling-showed-us-the-way-forward?CMP…