World Of 100 Analysis - Biello
We were given a worksheet that had multiple categories including, for example; gender, age, geography, religion, etc. But, we had to fill out each category with only 100 people in mind, dividing them up however we saw fit, hence the name "World of 100".
POVERTY
As you can see my answers were too high and too low for the class answer averages and the correct answer values. The thing I found most interesting about the graph however was the fact that less than 50 people were living on less than 2USD per day, I would've thought the number would be much higher. It is interesting also how the class's average was right in between the correct answers and my own.
TECHNOLOGY (Cell-Phone Subscribers)
My answers along with the class's answers were substantially incorrect by 20-30+ people, in both categories. I figured that a lot of the people around the world didn't have cell phones because there are a lot of 3rd world countries and some people in 2nd world countries might not even want phones, but my reasoning was incorrect. A vast number of people (when scaled down to 100 people) are cell phone subscribers across the world, interesting.
TECHNOLOGY (Computers)
My answers along with my classmates' answers were pretty close for non-computer owners. When I was picking the amount of people who didn't own a computer, I knew it'd be high because of the amount of inaccessibility people have to a luxury such as computers so I picked a high amount of people. But, according to the correct answer; that wasn't even high enough! My classmates, in my opinion, had the same reasoning and they were pretty close to the correct answers as well.
Comparing My Answers to Correct Answers
Most of my answers weren't really close to the correct answers. This game is not as easy as it looks or sounds, it's actually pretty complicated. It really makes you think going from category trying to scale the entire world's population down to only 100 people. The categories that I was closest in my estimation to the correct answers were: gender, urban/rural, and computer owners. All of the other categories I was off pretty substantially. I think I was most accurate with gender because I thought you pretty much had to split it down 50/50 with a slight variation on one side. I had the same thought process with the urban/rural category. With the computer owners, I knew a lot of people in the world don't have access to computers so I knew the number of owners couldn't be anything huge, and I was correct! I was most inaccurate in the following categories: age and geography. I think I was wrong in age because I thought there would be a pretty much balanced amount of people in each age group with a little more in the 15-64+, which was the case. But, there were very little 65+, which I was severely incorrect in. For the geography category, I figured everybody would be really spread out so I made all of the groups 20 people. But, Asia took most of the people with 60, which blew my mind. That shows that a lot of the world's population is actually in the continent of Asia. One of the most shocking correct answers was definitely the Religion category. I was shocked to see that there were more Christians than Muslims, I thought it'd be the other way around. Another thing that I found pretty interesting and shocking was that Chinese (first language) was the highest amount of people. Looking at it now shows that China's population is massively huge as well as the language trickling down over the generations. This was a very interesting activity and a really good look at globalization.
POVERTY
As you can see my answers were too high and too low for the class answer averages and the correct answer values. The thing I found most interesting about the graph however was the fact that less than 50 people were living on less than 2USD per day, I would've thought the number would be much higher. It is interesting also how the class's average was right in between the correct answers and my own.
TECHNOLOGY (Cell-Phone Subscribers)
My answers along with the class's answers were substantially incorrect by 20-30+ people, in both categories. I figured that a lot of the people around the world didn't have cell phones because there are a lot of 3rd world countries and some people in 2nd world countries might not even want phones, but my reasoning was incorrect. A vast number of people (when scaled down to 100 people) are cell phone subscribers across the world, interesting.
TECHNOLOGY (Computers)
My answers along with my classmates' answers were pretty close for non-computer owners. When I was picking the amount of people who didn't own a computer, I knew it'd be high because of the amount of inaccessibility people have to a luxury such as computers so I picked a high amount of people. But, according to the correct answer; that wasn't even high enough! My classmates, in my opinion, had the same reasoning and they were pretty close to the correct answers as well.
Comparing My Answers to Correct Answers
Most of my answers weren't really close to the correct answers. This game is not as easy as it looks or sounds, it's actually pretty complicated. It really makes you think going from category trying to scale the entire world's population down to only 100 people. The categories that I was closest in my estimation to the correct answers were: gender, urban/rural, and computer owners. All of the other categories I was off pretty substantially. I think I was most accurate with gender because I thought you pretty much had to split it down 50/50 with a slight variation on one side. I had the same thought process with the urban/rural category. With the computer owners, I knew a lot of people in the world don't have access to computers so I knew the number of owners couldn't be anything huge, and I was correct! I was most inaccurate in the following categories: age and geography. I think I was wrong in age because I thought there would be a pretty much balanced amount of people in each age group with a little more in the 15-64+, which was the case. But, there were very little 65+, which I was severely incorrect in. For the geography category, I figured everybody would be really spread out so I made all of the groups 20 people. But, Asia took most of the people with 60, which blew my mind. That shows that a lot of the world's population is actually in the continent of Asia. One of the most shocking correct answers was definitely the Religion category. I was shocked to see that there were more Christians than Muslims, I thought it'd be the other way around. Another thing that I found pretty interesting and shocking was that Chinese (first language) was the highest amount of people. Looking at it now shows that China's population is massively huge as well as the language trickling down over the generations. This was a very interesting activity and a really good look at globalization.
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