Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling

Everyone seems to get the world devastatingly wrong.

Every group of people I ask thinks the world is more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless—in short, more dramatic—than it really is.

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Only actively wrong “knowledge” can make us score so badly.

So if your worldview is wrong, then you will systematically make wrong guesses.

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