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When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.
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Factfulness, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Factfulness
- Subtitle
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 342
- ISBN10
- 1473637473
- ISBN13
- 9781473637474
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Self-Help, Personal Growth, Politics, Science, Sociology, Gifts for men, Hope, Future, Poverty, Facts, Facts and Myths, Critical Thinking, Disinformation
- First published
- 2018
- Original title
- Factfulness
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.