00:15:22 Karen Carlson: Hello from Michigan 00:15:28 Kelly Spoon: Now it's there, thank you! 00:15:34 Kelly Spoon: Hello from San Diego! 00:15:34 Scott Kehrberg: Fort Dodge, Iowa 00:15:37 Susan Harthun: Hello from Iowa! 00:15:44 Kelly Spoon: Allan trusts us to chat with each other. 00:15:44 Julie Hanson: Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, NY 00:15:52 Judy McFarland: Florida 00:15:57 John Gallo: Hello from Virginia! 00:16:03 Elizabeth Allen: Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT 00:16:12 Angie Foster: Hello everyone! 00:16:23 Ann Assad: Hello from Paducah KY 00:16:31 Kaiwen Amrein: Portland, OR 00:16:32 John Bennett: Hello from SouthEastern NC 00:16:51 Mandy Kehm: Fort Dodge, IA 00:17:07 Kelly Spoon: John! I'll be in SE NC tomorrow. :/ 00:17:28 Elizabeth Allen: Where in SE NC? 00:17:31 John Bennett: Cool Kelly!!! 00:17:43 John Bennett: Lumberton, NC (at Robeson CC) for me 00:17:44 Kelly Spoon: I'll be visiting Shallotte. 00:18:06 Elizabeth Allen: Shallotte! Nice. One of my favorite places is Holden Beach 00:21:37 John Bennett: I might be cheating a bit, we use similar questions to these in our Quant. Lit. course. 00:21:49 Kelly Spoon: I may have seen Allan give this talk before. ;) 00:21:59 James McCoy: I read Dr. Pinker's book last summer :) 00:24:16 Elizabeth Allen: Apparently I am a pessimist 00:24:59 John Bennett: It's common that people think the world is considerably worse condition that it actually is 00:25:19 Roxy Peck: except in 2020 00:25:35 John Bennett: We only hear about the negative, unfortunately 00:25:45 John Bennett: @roxy, True 00:29:33 Christine Mirbaha: So true -- the media focuses on the negative. 00:34:38 Leah Beck: Its not necessarily a good thing that corn crops are larger… 00:35:06 Casie McGee: I think that one is misleading 00:35:52 Karen Carlson: True, subsidized corn syrup is not a good thing 00:40:44 Casie McGee: A change of political parties... 00:44:18 Karen Carlson: These do seem to be examples that would be more optimistic in another year. 00:45:01 Elizabeth Allen: I think this is the perfect topic for this year 00:45:12 Casie McGee: I agree. 2020 hasn't given us much to be optimistic about 00:46:26 Karen Carlson: What about vaccination, CO2 emission, and poverty trends? Are they the same in 2020 as in 2016? 00:50:03 Casie McGee: Most of these are misleading, and you really should define your variables. 00:50:22 Leah Beck: This was excellent! Some excellent news in a tough year! Thank you! 00:50:26 Wiley Events 4: For questions please use the Q&A button 00:50:43 Michael Minic: I love the blog; it's very insightful. 00:50:57 John Bennett: His blog is EXCELLENT! 00:51:00 Karen Carlson: Thank you. I did enjoy the material. 00:51:04 Elizabeth Allen: Yes. Thank you for an uplifting talk. Very nice for a rough year. 00:51:05 Judy McFarland: Thank-you, your presentation was enlightening. 00:51:19 Susan Harthun: Thank you! 00:51:24 Ann Assad: Thank you. 00:51:33 James McCoy: I loved Pinker's book, thanks. 00:51:33 Nick: Thank you. I agree. It was excellent. 00:51:40 Michael Huff: Thanks, we needed some good news! 00:52:31 Elizabeth Allen: Yes, we seem to be inundated with the negative examples. I like the idea of balance. 00:53:01 John Gallo: Thank you for a very positive presentation and some good ideas for class. 00:54:46 Rachel Cywinski: I think context is needed for education. For example, only recently did Mexico increase years of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years. it has been 13 years since Mexico stopped denying children with disabilities the right to attend school. Before that, an estimated 1 million children in Mexico had 0 years of education except what a few faith-based schools could provide at their locations for students with deafness and dyslexia. 00:54:58 Rachel Cywinski: So much of this is caused by general lack of recognition of the increase in population. 00:56:12 Rachel Cywinski: It would be appropriate to study the studies on human trafficking and life expectancy and education together, to study correlations. 00:56:46 Rachel Cywinski: It is important to provide hope, and also to analyze methods and assumptions of every study. 00:57:20 Rachel Cywinski: I think.people are more likely to hear about numbers of people living in.poverty. Numbers can grow as proportion decreases with population growth. 00:57:55 Leah Beck: Good point Rachel. People often think rates are the same as actual number of occurrences 00:58:08 Angie Foster: Looking for your next session? Check your inbox for your registration link or visit the app! https://crowd.cc/amatycwileyday PW: wilamatyc20 00:58:32 Judy McFarland: Thank-you.