Statistics can dispel global misconceptions, unveil truths

Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 05:31 in Mathematics & Economics

A few minutes before a recent lecture at Paine Hall, global health statistician Hans Rosling stood onstage, head down, and ran through his PowerPoint images. One showed the bespectacled Swede chest-deep in water. The caption read: "Help us across the river of myths."

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