Department of Unrepresentative Samples

So I started reading Steve Pinker's New York Times Magazine article from Sunday, the first sentence of which is:

Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug?

And my first thought was "Borlaug, of course!" Clearly, not the response Pinker had in mind.

Comments

[Matt Zeitlin]

I too thought Borlaug, but that's only because Deng Xiaoping wasn't in the list...