The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL
GATES is now available in a gift edition with the illustrations in color
throughout. "A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we
work off facts rather than our inherent biases." —Barack Obama "One of the
most important books I've ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking
clearly about the world." —Bill Gates "...Explains why progress is so often
secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly." —Melinda
Gates Instant New York Times bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller
FACTFULNESS: the stress-reducing habit of only having opinions for which
there are strong supporting facts. Things aren't as bad as we think. Fact.
When asked simple questions about global trends—why the world's population
is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in
poverty—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee
choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel
laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, legendary statisticians
Hans, Anna, and Ola Rosling offer a radical new explanation of why this
happens, and 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 let the bad news take on outsize
proportions instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose
our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Filled with
lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential
book that will change the way you see the world. And now, here is this
special gift edition: With charts and photographs in color, and a larger
format.
Author: Hans Rosling
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication Date: 2019
