![]() Hans Rosling was a Swedish Professor of Global Health at Karolinska Institute. Data must be used to tell the truth, not to call to action, no matter how noble the intentions. A problem-solving organization should not be allowed to decide what data to publish either.ġ0. A long jumper is not allowed to measure her own jumps. Give a child a hammer and everything looks like a nail.ĩ. ![]() Societies and cultures are not like rocks, unchanging and unchangeable. And it cannot be understood with numbers alone.ħ. The world cannot be understood without numbers. But if you think about it, working out the cost-effective way of saving as many children’s lives as possible is the least heartless exercise of them all.Ħ. It seems heartless and cruel, I know, to count dead children and to talk about cost-effectiveness in the same sentence as a dying child. ![]() The math was difficult because of what I was counting. Fears that once helped keep our ancesters alive, today help keep journalists employed.Ĥ. ![]() Child mortality rate measures the temperature of a whole society. ![]()
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