Video: Max Roser on data-driven optimism, how to analyze COVID-19, and more

The Torch of Progress, Episode 4

by Jason Crawford · June 25, 2020 · 1 min read

I talked to Max Roser for the fourth episode of “The Torch of Progress”, the speaker series of Progress Studies For Young Scholars. Topics include:

• Why Our World in Data is known as “the good news guys”
• How most people are pessimistic, but the data is optimistic
• Right & wrong ways to use data to understand COVID-19

Audio/podcast version on SoundCloud.

Upcoming events (all times Pacific):

• Deirdre McCloskey: Thurs, July 2, 10am
• Joel Mokyr: Weds, July 8, 10am
• Noor Siddiqui: Weds, July 15, 10am (registration link coming soon)
• Anton Howes: Weds, July 22, 10am (ditto)

And more after that, including Danica Remy of the Asteroid Institute.

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