Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why the World is Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling
“Given the vast amount of data available about almost everything, how much do you think you know about global trends? Do you think, for example, that life expectancy today is 50, 60 or 70 years? In the past 20 years, has the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty almost doubled, remained more or less the same, or almost halved? And in low-income countries, is the percentage of girls who finish primary school 20, 40 or 60 per cent?”
The main point of Factfulness was to explain the huge discrepancies between what people think is going on in the world and what actually is. We believe in any data that is presented to us but do we really spend some time analysing those data and even if we do what are the parameters? Whether things are true or not we really don’t know.
This book teaches:
- How do you consume content?
- How do you critically analyse data and go in-depth?
- How do we form a belief system around it?
For this book, professor and researcher Hans Rosling teamed up with his son and daughter-in-law, who co-founded the Gapminder Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to using simple, visually appealing data to squash untruths about the world.
This book should be required reading for planet Earth.
