{"id":1362,"date":"2012-03-28T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2012-03-28T21:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:06:51","slug":"happy-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/happy-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some weeks ago I was browsing through the categories<\/a> of TED Talks<\/a> and was surprised to find an entry on statistics<\/a> – which is regraded to be a very boring topic by most people.<\/p>\n

The talk I chose to watch was by Nic Marks – as I tried to avoid yet another Hans Rosling talk.<\/p>\n


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\nApart from Marks’ sweeping positive charisma, what struck me most, was the very relevant question, why we choose measures like GDP or NASDAQ to measure our “wellbeing” – as these KPIs mostly measure how efficient we destroy our (or others) environment or how much we increased the imbalance of wealth within our societies.<\/p>\n

After watching the talk I ended up at the happy planet index<\/a> site, and found myself flipping through their report<\/a>. On page 16, I found Figure 2, which kind of blew me away.<\/p>\n

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I don’t want to get into moral preachings here, but take your time and rethink your life and attitude and try to come up with some explanation and projection of what has changed over the last 45 years – I am curious to see your comments.<\/p>\n

Sometimes even very simple statistics make you think hard …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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