One Name Is More Powerful Than a Million Statistics

Paul Slovic's research reveals a disturbing truth about human compassion: our conscience cannot multiply. In the Rokia Experiment, a single seven-year-old girl's photograph outperformed statistics about millions of famine victims. Stranger still, adding data to her story actually reduced donations. Slovic calls this psychic numbing: as suffering scales up, empathy flatlines or even declines. The drop-in-the-ocean fallacy compounds the problem, paralyzing action entirely. Peter Singer's *The Life You Can Save* offers the antidote: one face, one name, one story.

You'll learn:

- Why compassion fades starting at the second victim

- How statistics shift the mind into cold calculation mode

- The two-step rhythm that balances heart with head