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about the author hans rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health, and renowned public educator. he was an adviser to the world health organization and unicef, and he cofounded médecins sans frontières in sweden and the gapminder foundation. his ted talks have been viewed more than thirty-five million times, and he was listed as one of time magazine’s one hundred most influential people in the world. hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing this book. ola rosling and anna rosling rönnlund, hans’s son and daughter-in-law, are cofounders of the gapminder foundation, and ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. after google acquired trendalyzer, the bubblechart tool invented and designed by anna and ola, ola became head of google’s public data team and anna became the team’s senior user-experience (ux) designer. they have both received …

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nkment london ec4y 0dz www.sceptrebooks.com http://www.sceptrebooks.com to the brave barefoot woman, whose name i don’t know but whose rational arguments saved me from being sliced by a mob of angry men with machetes contents about the author title page copyright dedication author’s note introduction chapter one: the gap instinct chapter two: the negativity instinct chapter three: the straight line instinct chapter four: the fear instinct chapter five: the size instinct chapter six: the generalization instinct chapter seven: the destiny instinct chapter eight: the single perspective instinct chapter nine: the blame instinct chapter ten: the urgency instinct chapter eleven: factfulness in practice factfulness rules of thumb outro acknowledgments appendix: how did your country do? notes sources biographical notes footnotes author’s note factfulness is written in my voice, as if by me alone, and tells many stories from my life. but please don’t be misled. just like the ted talks and lectures …

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ainchild. while i was getting ever angrier about people’s ignorance about the world, ola and anna instead took the analysis beyond anger and crystallized the humble and relaxing idea of factfulness. together we defined the practical thinking tools that we present in this book. what you are about to read was not invented according to the “lone genius” stereotype. it is instead the result of constant discussion, argument, and collaboration between three people with different talents, knowledge, and perspectives. this unconventional, often infuriating, but deeply productive way of working has led to a way of presenting the world and how to think about it, that i never could have created on my own. introduction why i love the circus i love the circus. i love to watch a juggler throwing screaming chain saws in the air, or a tightrope walker performing ten flips in a row. i love the spectacle …

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r and tried, i’d get as far as an inch and it would get stuck. eventually, for a second time, i gave up on my dream. three years later i was a trainee doctor on a real medical ward. one of my first patients was an old man with a persistent cough. i would always ask what my patients did for a living, in case it was relevant, and it turned out he used to swallow swords. imagine my surprise when this patient turned out to be the very same sword swallower from the x-ray! and imagine this, when i told him all about my attempts with the fishing rod. “young doctor,” he said, “don’t you know the throat is flat? you can only slide flat things down there. that is why we use a sword.” that night after work i found a soup ladle with a straight flat handle …

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paper and a pencil and answer the 13 fact questions below. 1. in all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school? a: 20 percent b: 40 percent c: 60 percent 2. where does the majority of the world population live? a: low-income countries b: middle-income countries c: high-income countries 3. in the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has … a: almost doubled b: remained more or less the same c: almost halved 4. what is the life expectancy of the world today? a: 50 years b: 60 years c: 70 years 5. there are 2 billion children in the world today, aged 0 to 15 years old. how many children will there be in the year 2100, according to the united nations? a: 4 billion b: 3 billion c: 2 billion 6. the un predicts that by …

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about the author hans rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health, and renowned public educator. he was an adviser to the world health organization and unicef, and he cofounded médecins sans frontières in sweden and the gapminder foundation. his ted talks have been viewed more than thirty-five million times, and he was listed as one of time magazine’s one hundred most influential people in the world. hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing this book. ola rosling and anna rosling rönnlund, hans’s son and daughter-in-law, are cofounders of the gapminder foundation, and ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. after google acquired trendalyzer, the …

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