factfulness ten reasons we re wrong about the world

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. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective -from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them ) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. 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. President Barack Obama Factfulnes s: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.' - Melinda Gates ' Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' - Former U.S. But Factfulness does much more than that. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' - Bill Gates 'Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can.

Factfulness ten reasons we re wrong about the world