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Because the chimpanzee would score half right if I gave them two bananas with Sri Lanka and Turkey.
因為黑猩猩能得一半的分數，如果我給它們兩個分別標著斯里蘭卡和土耳其的香蕉，
They would be right half of the cases. But the students are not there.
它們會選對一半，但這些優等生們卻做不到。
The problem for me was not ignorance; it was preconceived ideas.
這不是由于知識缺乏，而是他們先入為主的錯誤理念。
I did also an unethical study of the professors of the Karolinska Institute,
我還把這個測試拿去給卡羅林斯卡學院的教授們做，
that hands out the Nobel Prize in Medicine, and they are on par with the chimpanzee there.
他們每年負責頒發諾貝爾醫學獎，結果教授們和黑猩猩半斤八兩。
This is where I realized that there was really a need to communicate,
我意識到很有必要交流一下這個問題，
because the data of what's happening in the world and the child health of every country is very well aware.
因為多數人并不知道世界各國的兒童健康的改善。
We did this software which displays it like this: every bubble here is a country.
我們作了一個軟件，每一個小球代表一個國家。
This country over here is China. This is India.
這個是中國。這個是印度。
The size of the bubble is the population, and on this axis here, I put fertility rate.
小球的尺寸代表該國的人口，X軸是生育率，
Because my students, what they said when they looked upon the world,
我曾問過學生們，如果讓你們來審視這個世界，
and I asked them, "What do you really think about the world?"
你們的真實想法是什？
Well, I first discovered that the textbook was Tintin, mainly.
其實這些教科書上都是丁丁歷險記的人物。
And they said, "The world is still 'we' and 'them.' And 'we' is Western world and 'them' is Third World."
學生們回答，世界是由“我們和他們”組成的。“我們”指西方世界，“他們”指第三世界。
"And what do you mean with Western world?" I said.
我又問，“什么是西方世界？”
"Well, that's long life and small family, and Third World is short life and large family."
“西方世界壽命長且家庭小；第三世界壽命短而家庭大。”
