The author suggests not to talk about developed and developing countries anymore since it reflects a simplified view (the west and the rest) that does not help to understand the world today. He had a very rich experience so that the book is almost his biography. Rosling, who passed away in 2017 before the book was published, had several decades of experience in global health. Hans Rosling’s TED talks motivated me to read this book. He concluded that the problem is that people have a distorted image of the world, which makes them score worse than the chimpanzees! He proves this by a series of tests (multiple answer questions) like the following one taken from the book:Īnd gives you the right answer, with the percentage of people who answered correctly in several countries as follows.īased on this exercise, Rosling noticed that when people don’t know the correct answer, their results were not random (otherwise they would score 33% right for the given 3 choices, like would the chimpanzees do!). We would like to think about the world in a static way, whereas it is changing continuously and at a faster pace.
Hans Rosling, the main author, argues that young people today see the world and think about it, as it was several decades ago (when their professors were young), and that older people have not updated their information since then. Factfulness is full of eye-opening facts and is very pleasant to read. It provides some mental tools for individuals, organizations, and governments to make better decisions. This book gives insights about how to deal with data and build a fact-based view of global events and issues. In a fast-changing world, our brains are bombarded with a large amount of information all the time.
Title: Factfulness – Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.
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