Today in my Microbiology class my teacher was discussing a little bit about a science conference he attended last week. At this event there were many people dedicated to a variety of scientific research. One topic that stood out and reminded me of our class discussions was that of populations of the world as well as the damage that humans are doing to the world. One of the scientists gave a lecture about statitcs involving populations around the world and CO2 emission in different countries. Unfortuantely, most statistics must be taken with a grain of salt but he has a website that I thought was pretty neat.
He has statistical charts where you can manually change, choosing your X and Y axis.
Let me know if you discover anything interesting. One that I found to be frustrating was the chart, CO2 emission vs. Time since 1820. I have a feeling most of you will not be surprised to find which conutry is at the top of the chart.
The website is gapminder.com
If you click on Load Gap Minder World it will lead you to the chart
Have Fun!
The website is interesting!I played with the chart and put education -8th grade math achievement as dependent variable and time as independent variable. The tops are Asian countries(expected), and this supports stereotype, "Asians are smart or good at math." I think this might because of intensive education systems or high competition among students. However, there are many Asian countries where only top few percents of children get education. The example would be China(China was not on the graph, but Taiwan was), because the country is so big that there are a huge gap between rich and poor. So, this could relate our discussion about the relationship between population control and education in China.
ResponderEliminarThank you for sharing a good website!