We continued with Hans Rosling's documentary, and - as always - I would pause when I wanted to elaborate on a particular concept, or more specifically when Jared had a question or a comment. I was very impressed today when Jared brought up multiple occasions of his noticing when statistics were presented erroneously. He specifically brought up the practice of 'cherrypicking', when only a certain subset of a dataset is presented to the public in an effort to highlight a specific philosophy or agenda (at times this may also occur completely subconsciously due to innate biases). Jared's specific example today referred to college dropouts that made it big (e.g. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg) in a program that tried to dissuade kids from going to college. Jared himself recognized the flaws in this argument: that the majority of the dropouts never made it big (and were not mentioned) and that these dropouts were all at very prestigious schools.