{"id":674,"date":"2011-03-07T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/economics\/the-worlds-most-typical-person\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:40:46","slug":"the-worlds-most-typical-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/economics\/the-worlds-most-typical-person\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&rsquo;s Most Typical Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image_thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"604\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The world\u2019s most typical person is male and in terms of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mode_(statistics)\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">mode average<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ethnic group, is a Chinese, Han man. His age, in terms of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Median\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">median average<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> is 28. The typical face shown above is built of 190 000 photos of 28 year old ethnic Han men. But as the video tells us, he won\u2019t be the most typical person for long \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As World Population approaches 7 billion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NationalGeographic\"><strong>NationalGeographic<\/strong><\/a> have created a brilliant infographic-style animation, complete with catchy tune and thought-provoking statistics. (There\u2019s also a healthy qualifier in there \u2013 \u201ctypical is always relative\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A great starter for population studies or even for discussions about global inequality, like the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/economics\/the-world-scaled-down-to-a-village-of-100\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">World Scaled Down to A Village of 100 idea<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. It might also have value in Theory Of Knowledge discussions of data and what we mean by \u2018typical\u2019 and \u2018ethnicity\u2019. There\u2019s even a bit relevant to the economic concept of \u2018needs and wants\u2019 at the very end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Packed full of cross-curricular uses, it is simply a \u2018must see\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s most typical person is male and in terms of the mode average ethnic group, is a Chinese, Han man. His age, in terms of median average is 28. The typical face shown above is built of 190 000 photos of 28 year old ethnic Han men. But as the video tells us, he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[192,191,215,156,15,221,115],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geography","tag-demography","tag-development-2","tag-development-economics","tag-infographic","tag-population","tag-scarcity","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}