Analysis Of Hans Rosling
I was just browsing TED Talks and saw a video tilted “The best stats you’ve ever seen” by Hans Rosling and it just caught my attention. It became clear very quickly that this was a fantastic speech. I knew absolutely nothing before clicking on the video. I was just looking for something that would be interesting.
The late Hans Rosling was born in Uppsala Sweden, on 27 July 1948 and dies on 7 February 2017 at the age of 68. He studied statistics, medicine and public health. He investigated an outbreak of konzo, a paralytic disease first described in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His investigations earned him a Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1986. After that he spent time working on documentary and began speaking. He was included in …show more content…
He began by telling the audience about when he was asked to teach a class. He believed that the class would already know the information he was trying to teach. His solution was to give the students a quiz to gauge what they knew. Turns out that the students did worse than a group of chimpanzees would have done. This was a simple, clever way to introduce the audience to his style of presenting. Unfortunately, he didn't seem to have much a Thesis. He began with the story then went straight into presenting without ever stating what the point of this presentation was. Rosling did have nice transitions between slides and major information. It all felt connected, even without a clear direction of were the speech was going I was able to easily follow the information he was putting forth. His conclusion was well organized, with his only issue being the sudden development of what the entire speech was a about. He went from displaying statistics to explaining how statistics and information is not readily available to everyone. This left his conclusion messy with no real structure. That being said, he did make his conclusion memorable by presenting his thesis in an interesting way. He used visuals to explain how information gathered in studies and research are lost in vast data of the internet and how this information can be used to make a …show more content…
During this story he mentions the fact that he was teaching global development to undergraduate students only after spending 20 years studying hunger in Africa. This is a extremely effective example of an Ethos statement. Immediately from the beginning you know that he is credible in what he is talking about and it sets up the rest of the speech extremely well. Along with Ethos his Pathos was also presented extremely well. During his entire speech he talks about statistics dealing with world and how it is improving. More specifically, at one point he showed a graph describing the increase of a countries wealth and the medical health of that country. With these types of graphs it allows the viewer to focus in on certain facts about the world. These facts were all centered around the quality of life in humans. That makes it easy to feel an emotional connection with he is speaking about. Logos was equally well presented. His speech was primarily made up from logic. The entire speech was one long logical argument. During his speech he continually shows the use and benefit of statistics. Then at the end shares with the audience that the entire point of his speech was to demonstrate why the use of statistics is important. It is difficult to argue with a point when you spent the last 18 minutes being impressed by the data he is
The late Hans Rosling was born in Uppsala Sweden, on 27 July 1948 and dies on 7 February 2017 at the age of 68. He studied statistics, medicine and public health. He investigated an outbreak of konzo, a paralytic disease first described in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His investigations earned him a Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1986. After that he spent time working on documentary and began speaking. He was included in …show more content…
He began by telling the audience about when he was asked to teach a class. He believed that the class would already know the information he was trying to teach. His solution was to give the students a quiz to gauge what they knew. Turns out that the students did worse than a group of chimpanzees would have done. This was a simple, clever way to introduce the audience to his style of presenting. Unfortunately, he didn't seem to have much a Thesis. He began with the story then went straight into presenting without ever stating what the point of this presentation was. Rosling did have nice transitions between slides and major information. It all felt connected, even without a clear direction of were the speech was going I was able to easily follow the information he was putting forth. His conclusion was well organized, with his only issue being the sudden development of what the entire speech was a about. He went from displaying statistics to explaining how statistics and information is not readily available to everyone. This left his conclusion messy with no real structure. That being said, he did make his conclusion memorable by presenting his thesis in an interesting way. He used visuals to explain how information gathered in studies and research are lost in vast data of the internet and how this information can be used to make a …show more content…
During this story he mentions the fact that he was teaching global development to undergraduate students only after spending 20 years studying hunger in Africa. This is a extremely effective example of an Ethos statement. Immediately from the beginning you know that he is credible in what he is talking about and it sets up the rest of the speech extremely well. Along with Ethos his Pathos was also presented extremely well. During his entire speech he talks about statistics dealing with world and how it is improving. More specifically, at one point he showed a graph describing the increase of a countries wealth and the medical health of that country. With these types of graphs it allows the viewer to focus in on certain facts about the world. These facts were all centered around the quality of life in humans. That makes it easy to feel an emotional connection with he is speaking about. Logos was equally well presented. His speech was primarily made up from logic. The entire speech was one long logical argument. During his speech he continually shows the use and benefit of statistics. Then at the end shares with the audience that the entire point of his speech was to demonstrate why the use of statistics is important. It is difficult to argue with a point when you spent the last 18 minutes being impressed by the data he is