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I think Rosling extremly wants to convince people. For this purpose he usess an exponential scale on his income graphics instead of a linear scale for the income. If he used a linear scale, then most people of the world would live in Level 1, only a few in Levels 2, 3 and 4. Details on this issue can be found in the Web, search for "Factfulness: Building Gapminder Income Mountains" of the Stockholm University.
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Jan 11, 2019 08:02AM
I think Rosling extremly wants to convince people. For this purpose he usess an exponential scale on his income graphics instead of a linear scale for the income. If he used a linear scale, then most people of the world would live in Level 1, only a few in Levels 2, 3 and 4. Details on this issue can be found in the Web, search for "Factfulness: Building Gapminder Income Mountains" of the Stockholm University.
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