A 90 minutes talk on why I work on OurWorldInData (1st section on common misconceptions of development). A second section on how the world has changed. And a third section on my project OurWorldInData.org.

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1. Global Living Standards over the Long Run
2. How to Publish Empirical Research in the 21st Century?
OurWorldInData.orgMax Roser – Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School

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Outline of the Presentation
• Why?
• What?
• How?

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Why?

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Misperceptions
1. Demographics
2. Health
3. Politics
4. Poverty
5. Inequality
6. Violence

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US: estimate in survey is 28% – actual figure
12%
France: 28% vs 10%
United Kingdom: 24% vs 8%
Sides and Citrin (2007) – How Large the Huddled Masses? – The Causes and Consequences of Public Misperceptions about Immigrant Populations; Working Paper
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http://www.gapminder.org/GapminderMedia/wp-uploads/Results-from-the-Ignorance-Survey-in-the-US..pdf
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http://www.gapminder.org/GapminderMedia/wp-uploads/Results-from-the-Ignorance-Survey-in-the-US..pdf
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Wealth Inequality in the US
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Most Americans think that crime is going up
– whether or not it actually is
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/4/8546497/crime-rate-america
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Motivation for Our World In Data
• Consequences of misperception
• An empirical perspective on how the world is changing over the long-
run
• Making research available for journalists and the public
• World Bank (May 2014) – 'Which World Bank Reports Are Widely
Read?': 31% never downloaded

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1: Health
2: Power and Violence
3: Economic Prosperity
4: Food
5: Nature(Energy Sources and Environmental Problems)
6: Peace
7: Culture

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What?

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1: Health

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www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale
Florence Nightingale – using data visualization to change policy

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2: Power and Violence

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3: Economic Prosperity

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5: Ecology: Energy Sources and
Environmental Problems

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6: War

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How?

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Database
Research
Papers
International
Institutions
Own data
Bar ChartLine Chart
Scatter Plot

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Max.Roser@inet.ox.ac.uk
www.OurWorldInData.org
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