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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 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
Factfulnes s: 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.
Author Notes
Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health and renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and he was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing Factfulness .
Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling R ö nnlund, Hans's son and daughter-in-law, were co-founders of the Gapminder Foundation, and Ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. After Google acquired the bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, invented and designed by Anna and Ola, Ola became head of Google's Public Data Team and Anna the team's senior user experience (UX) designer. They have both received international awards for their work.
Reviews (3)
Kirkus Review
An influential thought leader puts a positive spin on global awareness.In his posthumous collaborative book poised to "fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview," Swedish physician, global health lecturer, and academic statistician Rosling (1948-2017) parts the dingy curtains of global pessimism to reveal an alternate and uplifting perspective on the state of world issues today. Co-written with Rosling's son and daughter-in-law, the book effectively educates, uplifts, and reassures readers through chapters reinforced by focused, statistically sound research studies. Rosling presents 10 theoretical concepts, or "instincts," which are basic human impulses that often cause the general public to misinterpret and hyperbolize critical information about the contemporary world. Among the behaviors he cites that drive people to manifest an "overdramatic worldview" are the tendency to divide everything into two aspects ("us vs. them," the "developing" vs. the "developed" world), blaming one indicator for a myriad of troubles, and cultivating a negative mindset. Adding to the dynamically designed presentations of charts, images, data analysis, and personal anecdotes, the author also breaks up his succinct chapters with humor and common-sense reasoning bolstered by statistical data. Multiple choice questions on world knowledge are sure to surprise and enlighten readers curious about their own awareness levels and susceptibility to rush judgments, misconceptions, and defeatist mindsets. With unfailing optimism, Rosling administers a fact-based antidote to apocalyptic statistics like world population overgrowth, rampant infant deaths, and soaring crime rates, none of which are ballooning out of control but are fearfully perceived as such. He also examines five pressing real-world "risks" that demand attention: poverty, global warming, financial collapse, global pandemic, and a catastrophic third world war. In compelling readers to comprehend the positive aspects of world changes using practical thinking tools, Rosling delivers a sunny global prognosis with a sigh of relief.An insistently hopeful, fact-based booster shot for a doomsaying, world-weary population. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Sure to grab attention with its catchy subtitle, this book by the late academic, statistician, and TED Talk star explains in plain prose how and why the most intelligent among us hold mistaken beliefs about important worldwide issues like poverty, education, population, demographics, health, and the environment. This is no academic treatise; Rosling uses simple charts and graphs to turn years of data into easily understandable evidence that contradicts erroneous mainstream ideas about overpopulation, undereducation of women in developing countries, vaccinations among the poor, the lethality of natural disasters, and climate change. In an accessible, almost folksy prose, Rosling identifies various reasons why so many of us have ended up with so many faulty ideas about our world. These reasons are the crux of the book and cannot be reduced to aphorisms, but they involve issues like negativity, fear, generalization, blame, urgency, and destiny. Each chapter ends with a page of bullet-point summaries and motivational advice for the future. His final advice is to teach our children humility, curiosity, and a fact-based worldview. Recommended for all libraries.--Tosko, Michael Copyright 2018 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
FACTFULNESS By Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund. (Flatiron, $27.99.) Rosling, who died last year, was an expert on international health who lamented the information bubbles that he feared surrounded too many of us. Burst them, he argues in this book, and our general pessimism about the state of the world will also ease - things are much better than they seem. Neapolitan chronicles By Anna Maria Ortese. (New Vessel, paper, $16.95.) This collection of writing and reportage about Naples was a major inspiration for Elena Ferrante. Ortese's portrait of the Italian city just after World War II is of a place of poverty and desperation, lear By Harold Bloom. (Scribner, $24.) Bloom's understanding of Lear as a character has shifted with age, allowing him to appreciate aspects of the old king he couldn't see at 17 or 40. This focused study showcases the erudition of one of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars, the kremlin ball By Curzio Malaparte. (New York Review, paper, $15.95.) This is a glimpse of 1920s Moscow, among the Soviet high society It's the aftertaste of the revolution. Published posthumously, Malaparte's court chronicle captures Stalin as the surveyor of every intrigue and scandal from his nightly opera box. the view from flyover country By Sarah Kendzior. (Flatiron, paper, $12.99.) A St. Louis-based journalist, Kendzior has been called "a Cassandra in Trumpland," analyzing in these short essays the social trends and discontent in Middle America that built the president's base. "When I drove to Spring Green, Wis., for a reporting trip recently, I expected to see Frank Lloyd Wright's influence sprinkled throughout the bucolic valley that he considered his home, a place I hadn't visited since I was a child. I hadn't realized that Wright's inspiration seemed to touch nearly everything there: the design of houses tucked into grassy slopes, a former bank's drive-through lanes, the prairie-style sconces in the hallways of a tiny elementary school. So when I returned home, I (perhaps a little belatedly) turned to frank lloyd wright, a 2004 biography by Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic. Hers is one of many biographies on Wright, whose cinematic, brilliant life makes for incredibly rich reading. Huxtable skillfully weaves together the tales of Wright as a seductive, obsessive young architect in booming late-19th-century Chicago, where he rubbed shoulders with Jane Addams and Daniel Burnham; his scandalous personal behavior and indifference to his small children (he apparently loathed the sound of the word 'papa'); and the debts, broken relationships, tragedy and lasting acclaim that followed." - JULIE BOSMAN, NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, ON WHAT SHE'S READING.
Table of Contents
| Author's Note | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Chapter 1 The Gap instinct | p. 19 |
| Chapter 2 The Negativity Instinct | p. 47 |
| Chapter 3 The Straight Line Instinct | p. 75 |
| Chapter 4 The Fear Instinct | p. 101 |
| Chapter 5 The Size Instinct | p. 124 |
| Chapter 6 The Generalization Instinct | p. 144 |
| Chapter 7 The Destiny Instinct | p. 166 |
| Chapter 8 The Single Perspective Instinct | p. 185 |
| Chapter 9 The Blame Instinct | p. 204 |
| Chapter 10 The Urgency Instinct | p. 223 |
| Chapter 11 Factfulness in Practice | p. 243 |
| Factfulness Rules of Thumb | p. 256 |
| Outro | p. 257 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 261 |
| Appendix: How Did Your Country Do? | p. 267 |
| Notes | p. 275 |
| Sources | p. 299 |
| Biographical Notes | p. 327 |
| Index | p. 331 |