is it only me, or has anyone else noticed his intepretation is a bit off at
least on the point where he says China's economic growth was faster than
ever in the UK (at 3:16 on the BBC video) - failing to note the income on
the plots is in logarithmic scale!
i'm not saying it wasn't possibly faster, just that his data visualisation
is positively misleading on this count.
maja
Maja Zaloznik
Research Student
Department of Geography
University of Liverpool
Room 105, 1st Floor, Roxby Building
Liverpool
Merseyside
L69 7ZT
2009/6/1 Allan Reese (Cefas) <[log in to unmask]>
> I mangled the link to the BBC website
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8070000/8070108.stm
>
> but Tobias Ryden has kindly provided some background information on
> Professor Rosling
>
> According to the Swedish Wikipedia page
> http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
> he is a physician, with a PhD in internal medicine, and professor of
> international health. In fact I now see that the English Wikipedia page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
> says that he studied statistics in the 60's, but still I think it is not
> correct to call him a statistician. A physician with unusually good
> knowledge of statistics is probably a fair description.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tobias Rydén
>
>
>
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