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Making numbers relatable

Making numbers relatable

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Making numbers relatable

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- [Narrator] Burritos are pretty relatable and the data we've been looking at is, too. Someone eats a burrito and scores it on a scale from one to five, nothing that crazy. So let's step away from burritos for a moment. This'll be a more serious topic, too. As of June 2022, more than 6.3 million people worldwide have died from COVID-19. That's a really big number, I think, but on its own, it actually doesn't necessarily mean that much to some people. Why? Because it's not really relatable from a variety of perspectives. I can't even quite visualize what 6.3 million people looks like. I can visually imagine 10 people, 100 people, but 6.3 million? I guess I could visualize a big football stadium full of a hundred thousand screaming fans and then imagine 63 of those. That's 6.3 million people. That's sort of relatable. But wow, even that's kind of hard to see 63 packed stadiums, and it's still unrelatable in terms…

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