TY  - BOOK
TI  - Factfulness: ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think 
SN  - 9781473637498 (pbk)
U1  - 155.9042 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Sceptre, 
N2  - 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. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most
ER  -