Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

By Hans Rosling (2018)

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...