Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling (1948-2017) was a professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and Cofounder of Gapminder (2005). Part of Rosling’s life work can be summarized in Gapminder’s mission which is to fight devastating misconceptions with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. Many of his TED Talks are famous for his stunning way of presenting data and facts about the world.
Through the years, Rosling found again and again that when asked simple questions about global trends, people systematically get the answers so wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess them. Read more...
thinking
biases
data
objectivity