Watch TedTalk video and respond to one critic's opion

profilewiluiana

WATCH: TED Talks: Hans Rosling - Population Growth Explained with IKEA Boxes (10:04)

 

Forum Description

 

Watch Hans Rosling's TED Talk: Global Population Growth, box by box.

In the comments section, a person posted that they reject Rosling's idea because of the following:
"First,you can't use 1 box to stand for 1 billion people. The sample was too big to represent for a group, which means that the grouping made no sense.  Second, poverty will never disappear no only it's made by human but also it's one of the reason that society can advance. Just think about normal distribution, the poor and the rich will always coexist which means improving the poor's life conditions is a pseudo-proposition. So I'm confused that why there are so many people devote charity. Because of needs of mental or some other reasons?"

How would you present your opinion to this person in terms of both his critique of the "sample used" and also his reference to "the normal distribution."
What is a normal distribution and how has this person misused the term in this particular context?

    • 9 years ago
    • 20
    Answer(1)

    Purchase the answer to view it

    blurred-text
    NOT RATED
    • attachment
      ted_talk_video.doc
    Bids(1)