Factfulness

Factfulness

by Hans Rosling

6 mentors recommend this 352 pages

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 at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Profe

ISBN: 9781250231987

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Howard Marks

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"Unmasks a lot of misperceptions that people have about the state of the world."

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Barack Obama

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"A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases."

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