Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World--And Why Things Are Better Than You Think By Hans Rosling

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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 But Factfulness does muchthan that It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearlyMelinda 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 US President Barack ObamaFactfulness The stress reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts When asked simple uestions 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 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 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 Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases It turns out that the world for all its imperfections is in a much better state than we might think That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns 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 Inspiring and revelatory filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future This book is my last battle in my life long mission to fight devastating ignorancePreviously I armed myself with huge data sets eye opening software an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword swallowing It wasn't enough But I hope this book will be Hans Rosling February 2017INSTANT 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. But Factfulness does much more than that. 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. President Barack Obama

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

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.

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. 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).

Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. 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.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.

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This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn't enough. But I hope this book will be. Hans Rosling, February 2017.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

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

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Hans Rosling explains how media bias ideological preconceptions and statistical illiteracy makes most people in rich countries believe in a gloomy and spectacularly wrong worldview The book carefully explains by data and vivid examples how positive developments are systematically underreported while disaster news are vastly over reported Rosling categorise the 10 most important sources of bias and misconceptions as well as explaining strategies on how to avoid themThis book is a treasure trove of evidence based reasoning global statistics and myth busting I read it just after finishing Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason Science Humanism and Progress These books have a lot in common both in goal and tone but I enjoyed Rosling's book much Unless you have watched Roslings famous lectures available on TED and Youtube this book will forever change the way you understand global health demography and development American classics Listen to his TED talk and save yourself the cost of this book and the environment the cost of the tree used to make it and the fossil fuel used to send it to you The author is a complete narcissist and insulting in his tone Every few pages has a paragraph that begins something along the lines of “Not long ago I was invited to the five star Balmoral Hotel in Edinborough to present to a gathering of capital managers and their wealthiest clients” or “At the end of my opening lecture in my 1998 course in global health” or “I was lecturing at Karolinska Institutet” or “There I had spent two days using my hands to diagnose hundreds of patients with a terrible un explained disease MUST HAVE BEEN A VERY BUSY TWO DAYS” or “The first time I lectured to the staff of the world bank I told them AND IF I’M LECTURING THE WORLD BANK THEN I MUST BE REALLY SMART AND HAVE REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF TO SAY”After reading this tedious book that could be summarized in a couple of charts or 17” TED talk I think if I were seated next to Hans Rosling on an airplane FIRST CLASS OF COURSE I’d be searching for an empty seat in tourist class next to the bathrooms Or a parachute Or maybe just jump American classics I bought this book after seeing Bill Gates recommendation and I have been really enjoying it It goes a long way towards explaining human cognitive behavior in the face of today's us vs them social media environment as well as historical cases where people just have a really hard time accepting the fact that things are almost always better than they think they are and the extremes are much rarer than most people would guessIt ought to be reuired reading at the high school level IMHOIt's very well written and readable the author is famous for his Ted talks on the subject He really wants to help everyone understand and learn how to better evaluate what they hear about the worldA couple notes you can download a whole chapter of the book from Bill Gates web site if you want to read of it in advance The Kindle version is currently broken on some devices at least my Chromebook running the Android Kindle app where it won't render any page contents properly unless you tap to zoom out to the page browsing mode where it does look correct American classics Content is interesting but it’s repetitive language is plain chart after chart telling the same thing in summary it’s all relative I finished it during a flight I don’t see where all these glowing reviews are coming from including Bill Gates You can just browse it at a book store all information is obvious most is common sense American classics I read Steve Pinker’s Enlightenment Now prior to reading Factfulness primarily because I got Pinker's book first But I’m glad that it happened that way Though I enjoyed Enlightenment Now I think Factfulness drives home the same message that our world is truly making positive progress but with such gripping real world observations that it almost reads like Dr Hans Rosling’s memoirDr Rosling’s stories of working as a medical doctor in some of the countries that many Westerners would lump under the stereotype of an impoverished “Third World” are as real as it gets His stories from the field illustrate the devastating results that our ignorance and biases can create But others so clearly show the progress we as a species have made as a result of our better understanding of the factsI would definitely recommend reading both Enlightenment Now for a academic and research based perspective and Factfulness for its memorable stories that drive home the need for fact based thinking American classics