Crews began paving on Wednesday of this week. Possible Saturday paving work may occur, depending on weather conditions.
Next week, crews will be pouring concrete and installing barrier.
The project is still on schedule to finish before Memorial Day weekend.
Traffic has been reduced to a single lane with an electronic temporary signal to manage traffic until the project is completed. It is important to follow these signal commands at all times and only proceed when the signal indicates that it is safe to do so.
Please proceed through the construction area with caution during this time for your own safety and the safety of the crews working.
Do we actually have an accurate picture of what’s going on in the world?
The answer is no. Not even close.
The normal American’s view is completely skewed. And negative. And that’s because the news is prone to be overly dramatic.
We think we’re learning what’s going on by watching the news, but we actually getting an incredibly skewed view. And that view is wrong.
In his book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Hans Rosling identifies a number of things we get wrong, but also the 10 reasons why and how to avoid our tendencies to skew the data.
It’s a fascinating book.
For example, Rosling wanted to see how well we understand the scientific projections of how our population will grow. After all, a lot of people think we’re headed for an overpopulation nightmare.
In 1950 there were fewer than one billion children (aged 0-14) in the world. By 2000 there were almost two billion. How many do UN experts think there will be in 2100?
4 billion
3 billion
2 billion
What do you think the right answer is?
If a bunch of chimpanzees had to answer the question above, each would choose an answer randomly. And 33% of them would get it right.
But when you ask humans in the question, most of them get it wrong. Most of them, in fact, do worse than the chimpanzees. It’s not even close.
Rosling asked 12,000 people in 14 countries were asked this question, among others. Here’s how many got it right in various countries.
To be clear, no chimps were tested. That bar is in there just for comparison. But if they were, that’s how they’d do.
So how is it possible that humans do so spectacularly worse than the chimpanzees?
It’s not because chimps are secretly studying world population stats and hatching schemes. It’s because we humans think we know something, but, in reality, what we think we know is wrong.
And in this case, we think they know that the population is going to keep growing and growing and growing.
But it’s not.
The right answer above is C—there are 2 billion children now, and there will be 2 billion in 2100.
The world has hit the peak number of children it will ever have at any time.
There are around 6 billion people on the earth today. As those 2 billion children get older, the UN experts project the total population to fill out and grow to 11 billion in 2100 and then level off.
That means there is no overpopulation nightmare on the horizon.
Can this be true?
Read Rosling’s book.
Well, what about literacy levels? Poverty? Racism? Wars?
And what about the news—don’t we see the world going to pieces every night?
If you want an eye-opening experience, read Rosling’s book. He delivers all the insights with clarity, expertise, and humor.
Best of all, when you’re done, you’ll have a set of tools to help you correct the picture.
