Should-Read: Hans and Ola Rosling: Author: Ignorance: "The mission of Gapminder Foundation is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand...

...We started the Ignorance Project to investigate what the public know and don’t know about basic global patterns and macro-trends. We use surveys to ask representative groups of people simple questions about key-aspects of global development.When we find large knowledge-gaps, we know what teaching materials we should develop. The first results from surveys in UK and Sweden were published in 2013. As the project evolves we will investigate many more countries. The test questions and results will be made freely available under Creative Commons Attribution License...

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