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Feb 9, 2020, 03:13 PM
#701
And she’s had to suffer that weirdo stalker for twenty-five years.
She’s an impressive woman.
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Feb 9, 2020, 05:58 PM
#702
Yes, I saw that (and she mentions him). Must be a real drag
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Feb 9, 2020, 06:15 PM
#703
She is indeed
As well as the backstage mechanics of how tv news is made, it was interesting to read her thought processes in the course of interviews. Sensing when questions have hit home, when to probe further, to wonder *why* the interviewee is telling a particular story, or used an odd form of words etc
Clearly you have to be doing all this, to be a good interviewer, but we’re so used to news people *not* voicing this stuff
Kind of reminded me of visiting Air Traffic, and the skilled double conversation the controller was having with me in the room and a pilot requesting clearance
He was calm and professional on mic, but adding scurrilous asides to me the while
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Feb 21, 2020, 08:59 PM
#704
I don't read much but this is the best book I've ever read - started earlier tonight and 4 hours, 160 pages later I'm halfway. To say I recommend it is an understatement Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14736374...mwcuEb0CTSR5K*
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Feb 21, 2020, 09:25 PM
#705
Originally Posted by
geoffbot
I don't read much but this is the best book I've ever read - started earlier tonight and 4 hours, 160 pages later I'm halfway. To say I recommend it is an understatement Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14736374...mwcuEb0CTSR5K*
Right off the bat brings Enlightenment Now to mind. Bill Gates' endorsement here, Bill Gates' endorsement there, I smell a rat somewhere.
Edit: Ah, Pinker's endorsement there as well. So, Gates...
Last edited by rodia77; Feb 21, 2020 at 09:38 PM.
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Feb 21, 2020, 10:42 PM
#706
But why ignore -
A powerful antidote to pervasive pessimism and populist untruths. -- Andrew Rawnsley, Observer, Book of the Year
Factfulness ... , a light-hearted but data-rich book, calibrates our view of the world and explains how our cognitive processes can lead us astray -- Steven Pinker, New Statesman, The best books of 2018
Wonderful... a passionate and erudite message that is all the more moving because it comes from beyond the grave... His knack for presentation and delight in statistics come across on every page. Who else would choose a chart of "guitars per capita" as a proxy for human progress?, Financial Times
An immensely cheering book in these anxious times. -- Christina Hardyment, The Times
An assault both on ignorance and pessimism . . . helping countries improve their governance and public health and opening them up to the rule of law and market exchange works. But not by some sort of magic. Because we act. And to this, as Rosling argues, we first have to understand the world we live in. -- Daniel Finkelstein, The Times
We need more of this way of thinking, both in business and politics. Where better to start than a new book by one of Gates' favourite gurus, the late Swedish statistician Hans Rosling . . . in an age of so-called post-truth, this is a celebration of the all too often repudiated but underlying story of relentless human progress. -- Jeremy Warner, Sunday Telegraph
You’ve got the whole spectrum there.
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Feb 21, 2020, 11:18 PM
#707
Err... what makes you think I'm ignoring anything?
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Feb 21, 2020, 11:52 PM
#708
Originally Posted by
rodia77
Err... what makes you think I'm ignoring anything?
You seemed to smell a rat because of two endorsements, when there look to be positive reviews from all quarters.
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Feb 22, 2020, 12:12 AM
#709
I was smelling a rat because I'm curious what business BG has mingling with scholars who propose very particular views. Nothing to do with positive/negative assesment of the views or books themselves.
When Enlightenment Now came out in 2018 I went to Dublin for Pinker's promo talk (a little disappointing in its format, btw, or maybe it was my expectations). Around that time I observed that he and Gates kind of got together (meetings, social media interactions) to a point of obtrusiveness.
Now I'm checking another book containing ideas that seem linked to Pinker's and the first thing that pops up is Gates' endorsement. So I gather he's up to something.
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Feb 22, 2020, 02:53 PM
#710
Originally Posted by
rodia77
So I gather he's up to something.
A train of thought I can’t follow.
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