Factfulness
Factfulness
- Sceptre, 2019
- x, 342 p. il. 20 cm.
ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think
Includes bibliographical references and index. TOC:-- CHAPTER ONE: The Gap Instinct-- CHAPTER TWO: The Negativity Instinct-- CHAPTER THREE: The Straight Line Instinct-- CHAPTER FOUR: The Fear Instinct-- CHAPTER FIVE: The Size Instinct-- CHAPTER SIX: The Generalization Instinct-- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Destiny Instinct-- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Single Perspective Instinct-- CHAPTER NINE: The Blame Instinct-- CHAPTER TEN: The Urgency Instinct-- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Factfulness in Practice-- APPENDIX: How Did Your Country Do?--
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). ; 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.
9781473637474
HM SOCIOLOGY
Social prediction
Stress management
Reality
ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think
Includes bibliographical references and index. TOC:-- CHAPTER ONE: The Gap Instinct-- CHAPTER TWO: The Negativity Instinct-- CHAPTER THREE: The Straight Line Instinct-- CHAPTER FOUR: The Fear Instinct-- CHAPTER FIVE: The Size Instinct-- CHAPTER SIX: The Generalization Instinct-- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Destiny Instinct-- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Single Perspective Instinct-- CHAPTER NINE: The Blame Instinct-- CHAPTER TEN: The Urgency Instinct-- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Factfulness in Practice-- APPENDIX: How Did Your Country Do?--
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). ; 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.
9781473637474
HM SOCIOLOGY
Social prediction
Stress management
Reality
