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

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"One of the most important books I've ever read--an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." - Bill Gates

"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and sil...show more

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Average rating: 7.47

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E Clou
May 10, 2023
6/10 stars
Badly written, but with ten useful metrics about ways in which the world is improving. Heartening but things relative to the short term are pretty rough right now, so it's difficult to absorb. The climate crisis, in particular, seems impossible to believable frame in the way that Rosling frames it, and I think it's sort of willfully misleading so as to make a bigger point about the world generally improving.
Reads4Fun
Jan 01, 2023
8/10 stars
Never hurts to have a reminder lesson in critical thinking.
Shelby8
Aug 16, 2022
10/10 stars
Anxiety reducing read.
Amaral
Jun 26, 2021
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