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From the Ted Talk by Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world

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Hans Rosling: I'm going to ask you three multiple choice qsetnuios. Use this device. Use this device to answer. The first qoetuisn is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaster, how did that change during the last century? Did it more than double, did it reiman about the same in the world as a whole, or did it decrease to less than half? Please answer A, B or C. I see lots of answers. This is much fesatr than I do it at universities. They are so slow. They keep thinking, thinking, thinking. Oh, very, very good.

And we go to the next question. So how long did women 30 years old in the wlrod go to school: seven yaers, five years or three years? A, B or C? Please answer.

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Hans Rosling: I'm going to ask you three multiple choice _________. Use this device. Use this device to answer. The first ________ is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaster, how did that change during the last century? Did it more than double, did it ______ about the same in the world as a whole, or did it decrease to less than half? Please answer A, B or C. I see lots of answers. This is much ______ than I do it at universities. They are so slow. They keep thinking, thinking, thinking. Oh, very, very good.

And we go to the next question. So how long did women 30 years old in the _____ go to school: seven _____, five years or three years? A, B or C? Please answer.

Solution


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  5. years
  6. world

Original Text


Hans Rosling: I'm going to ask you three multiple choice questions. Use this device. Use this device to answer. The first question is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaster, how did that change during the last century? Did it more than double, did it remain about the same in the world as a whole, or did it decrease to less than half? Please answer A, B or C. I see lots of answers. This is much faster than I do it at universities. They are so slow. They keep thinking, thinking, thinking. Oh, very, very good.

And we go to the next question. So how long did women 30 years old in the world go to school: seven years, five years or three years? A, B or C? Please answer.

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