So, Rosling asks, what makes people so ignorant? An outdated worldview and biased news reporting are the main causes.įor example, people still talk about ‘the west & the rest’ as the developed world versus developing countries. The world really fares a lot better than most people think. Astonishingly, 80% of the people score worse than chimps that would fill in answers at random. Rosling has presented the book to government leaders, the business elite and ordinary folks like you and me all over the world. It starts out with a short questionnaire. The book covers all the major topics like economic development, public health, population growth, education and climate change. I couldn’t agree more and I’ll explain why. ‘A brilliant book that everyone should read,’ wrote New Scientist. Factfulness is a remarkable book because of its wide scope and the consistency of its analyses of our misunderstanding of what’s going on in the world.
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