General Ignorance

A TED Talk deserving of QI:

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world#t-43964

Do you know the answer to these 3 questions?

1. Deaths in the last century from natural disasters have:
A. More than doubled?
B. Remained about the same?
C. Reduced to less than half?

2. What is the global average amount of years that women were educated in school by the time they were 30: (the average for men was 8 years)
A. 7 years?
B. 5 years?
C. 3 Years?

3. In the last 20 years the number of people living in extreme poverty has:
A. Almost doubled
B. Remained about the same?
C. Almost halved?

I remember reading something like this somewhere else a couple of years ago.. there was a quiz of questions similar to those asked in the video.
This is why there's a problem with politics and informed (or uninformed) voters.. people have no idea what's really going on. It's why we should do our own research before making choices.

But, we cannot know everything...

So, in matters where we vote, we should be informed...

IN matters where we are uninformed, we should become informed, or abstain from voting... :lol:...

I can guess at those questions, but I do not know the factual answers without looking...

But, I know plenty of other things that others do not...

Judging this fish because it cannot climb a tree seems silly, lol...