Most recent public comments by Betül Yıldırım https://nowcomment.com/users/94929 https://nowcomment.com/documents/299205?scroll_to=2665006 https://nowcomment.com/documents/299205?scroll_to=2665006 I think one of the amazing things in Gapminder is that we can create dynamic graphs and students have an opportunity to observe and make inferences about what could be in the future or how this data is changed over the years. Therefore, it helps to create the teacher and students more interesting analyzing data environment. Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:59:56 -0600 https://nowcomment.com/documents/299205?scroll_to=2664996 https://nowcomment.com/documents/299205?scroll_to=2664996 As we always mentioned that context matters so in the video there is a crime example. In San Francisco, sharing information about crimes and the date, time, and neighborhood where the crime took place attracted the attention of the people living in that area and they took initiative to live in a better environment. This is very useful real-life usage of statistics Also, the data is used to socially equalize citizenship. In the video, he mentioned that statistics started in 1759. Still, most of us do not know how to collect and interpret data, this makes me upset. Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:02:52 -0600 https://nowcomment.com/documents/299205?scroll_to=2664855 https://nowcomment.com/documents/299205?scroll_to=2664855 In the 7th minute of the video, he mentioned that if economic growth and family planning are provided then the rate of child survival will increase and family size will decrease. Population growth depends on the economy, education, and family planning. This is why the world population will reach in consistency if they have better conditions for living. Additionally, In the future, if still there will exist poor people, their population will be doubled again and again and the world population will not reach the consistency Mon, 13 Dec 2021 12:32:44 -0600