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The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics
The world is huge; to get a clear idea of what our world is like, we have to rely on carefully collected, well documented statistics.
Whether it is television or radio, the newspaper or photography, books, podcasts, documentaries, research papers, statistical tables, or social media. This gives us a biased and incomplete picture of the world; we are inundated with detailed news but hardly ever hear of everyday tragedies like the fact that 16,000 children die every single day. Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Hannah Ritchie, Natasha Ahuja, Ike Saunders, Edouard Mathieu, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Bastian Herre for their helpful comments to drafts of this essay and the visualizations.
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