Bibliograph

Factfulness, ten reasons we're wrong about the world-- and why things are better than you think, Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

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Factfulness, ten reasons we're wrong about the world-- and why things are better than you think, Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

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Index

index present

Intended audience

1000L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Factfulness

Nature of contents

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Responsibility statement

Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Sub title

ten reasons we're wrong about the world-- and why things are better than you think

Summary

A Professor of International Health and popular global TED speaker and his son and daughter-in-law who co-founded the Gapminder Foundation, explain how the best guesses, thoughts and concepts we accept as fact are actually tempered and informed by unconscious and predictable biases

Table Of Contents

The gap instinct -- The negativity instinct -- The straight line instinct -- The fear instinct -- The size instinct -- The generalization instinct -- The destiny instinct -- The single perspective instinct -- The blame instinct -- The urgency instinct -- Factfulness in practice -- Factfulness rules of thumb

Target audience

adult

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Ten reasons we're wrong about the world-- and why things are better than you think10 reasons we're wrong about the world-- and why things are better than you think

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