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

Paperback | 352 pages The international bestseller that Bill Gates calls "indispensable" is now available in paperback, with a brand-new readers group guide! A #1 Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and global bestseller!"A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." —Barack ObamaFACTFULNESS: 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 perspect