Factfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think / Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund.
Publication details: London : Sceptre, 2019.Edition: Paperback editionDescription: x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781473637498
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 302.12 ROS | Available | 070150 |
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Sceptre.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The gap instinct -- The negativity instinct -- The straight line instinct -- The fear instinct -- The size instinct -- The generalization instinct -- The destiny instinct -- The single perspective instinct -- The blame instinct -- The urgency instinct -- Factfulness in practice -- Factfulness rules of thumb -- Appendix. How did your country do?
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.