Team,
Here's an update of our plan for this week:
Sunday 9.25:
- Read chapter 4 on populations
- Do Practice quiz questions 1-5, email your answers to me
Monday 9.26:
- Lab re-work due (I will email you comments by Sunday night)
- Review chapter 4 notes in class (see wiki notes)
- Begin week questions (see below)
- Re-take chapter 3 exams (see my comments on your first run when you login to the test)
- TED talk on Hans Rosling 2006: http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2006/None/HansRosling_2006.mp4 (see questions below)
- In class: Global Footprint problem
Thursday 9.29:
Chapter 4 week questions:
- Note doubling times on table 4.1. Why is the doubling time in 2050 so high? Compare with fig 4.3
- compare Malthus to Marx to Cohen to Pimental
- What is good and bad about IPAT?
- p. 80: imagine life at your age in other countries
- Why is growth so low in Russia?
- Look at appendix 2, p. 377: which river valleys will be dry when the Himalayan ice pack is gone from global warming?
- Compare fecundity with fertility
- compare crude birth rate with total fertility rate
- What is the normal growth rate for zero population growth, and what happens when infant mortality rises?
- What recent changes has China seen in growth rate (since 1960)
- What is the global TFR?
- Why do organisms have a life span? Why will yours be greater than your parents?
- What was the life expectancy for an Indian man in 1900? Why?
- Why do the lifespans of men differ from those of women?
- Explain dependency ratio, using Japan and Italy as examples
- Using the demographic transition graph, give an example of each stage in present countries
- What happened in Andra Pradesh and Kerala? Why is this important for your wisdom about populations?
- Explain "unmet need"
Hans Rosling 2006 TED talk
http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2006/None/HansRosling_2006.mp4
- How would you describe Sweden as a country (population, affluence, child mortality)?
- Why would chimps do better on the test?
- The x axis is fertility rate, y axis is survival age. Where would you put the US?
- What were the two classes of country he finds?
- How did they change? What is the trend?
- US vs. Vietnam: compare since 1960-why?
- Look carefully at the X axis on the dollars graph-is it linear? What does this imply?
- Mark Twain said: "there are lies, damned lies, and statistics" how is this relevant?
- What is the OECD?
- Is there a relationship between income and % child survival? Explain.
- Which should come first: health or wealth? How does this relate to IPAT?
- "Nations use money better than they did in the past"- what does he mean by this?
- "Everything in the world exists in Africa"-why?
- At 15:56 you see these acronyms: Excel, Access, mySQL, XML, webservice and ODBC. Which of these are incorporated into the elab? Why? Check out http://www.gapminder.org/ and imagine a 21st century stats class you might take…or teach.
- What's the difference between "it's impossible" and "we can't do it"?
- Go to http://www.gapminder.org/world/ and run the simulation. What do you see? Pick three things you notice to share with the class.
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