![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Highly educated people don’t do any better either, and politicians, journalists and academics still don’t do better than random. In fact, we are not just wrong, but “systematically wrong” – the average is just 2 right answers out of 12 questions, which is worse than if we picked answers at random. We consistently overestimate how many people live in poverty, and underestimate the percentage of girls who go to school and how many children are vaccinated. The results are always the same: people, even very clever people, don’t know anything about global development. It’s online if you want to take it yourself, and Rosling has set it to students and audiences around the world. The book begins with a quiz about global trends. Published posthumously, Hans writes that “this book is my very last battle in my lifelong mission to fight devastating global ignorance.” Hence Factfulness: 10 reasons we’re wrong about the world and why things are better than you think, a smart and hopeful guide to critical thinking written with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Ronnlund. Despite the success of his lectures and TED talks, Rosling felt that he wasn’t reaching enough people. ![]() Hans Rosling was a statistician and doctor who was best known for presenting global development statistics with an engaging style and innovative use of graphics. ![]()
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