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Math 1115 L10 Project 5
Questions for Factfulness by Hans Rosling
(Taken from https:
opportunityinternational.ca/content/canada
log/2018%20 Book%20Club%20-%20Factfulness%20-%20Questions.pdf)
1. Rosling starts the book with a series of questions about the world that he has asked thousands of people—questions that people always get wrong. Did you answer these questions for yourself? How did you do on his quiz? Which questions were most surprising to you?
2. Each chapter highlighted a different trap we can fall into if we are not careful with our data. Which of these common misunderstandings most resonated with you? How have you seen these instincts play out when you describe the world around you?
3. Rosling’s data proves two main things: first, “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.” And second, “Though the world faces huge challenges, we have made tremendous progress.” This research is summarized in Rosling’s subtitle: “Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.” Did either of these truths surprise you? How have they shifted the way you look at some of the major global challenges we face?
4. Why is it so dangerous for business leaders, politicians, and change agents to have such a skewed view of the world? How might our “un-factful” understanding of global issues be impacting our policy, business decisions, and strategic plans? And what can we do to change this?
5. Rosling’s book was published in 2018. Do you think there have been significant changes since it was published? What has changed, and are those changes global, national or local?
6. What is one change you are going to make—in research, thought, the way you speak, or the way you perceive the world—after reading this book? What steps will you take to cultivate and practice a more “factful” worldview?

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
About the Autho
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 bu
lechart tool invented and designed by Anna and Ola, Ola
ecame head of Google’s Public Data Team and Anna became the team’s senior user-experience
(UX) designer. They have both received international awards for their work.

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First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Sceptre
An imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
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Copyright © Factfulness AB 2018
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accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Illustrations and charts are based on free material from the Gapminder Foundation, designed by Ola
Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund.
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To the
ave barefoot woman,
whose name I don’t know but whose rational arguments
saved me from being sliced
y a mob of angry men with machetes
Contents
About the Autho
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 Thum
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 I have been giving all over the world for the past
ten years, this book is the work of three people, not one.
I am usually the front man. I stand onstage and deliver the lectures. I receive the applause. But
everything you hear in my lectures, and everything you read in this book, is the output of eighteen
years of intense collaboration between me, my son Ola Rosling, and my daughter-in-law Anna
Rosling Rönnlund.
In 2005 we founded the Gapminder Foundation, with a mission to fight devastating ignorance with
a fact-based worldview. I
ought energy, curiosity, and a lifetime of experience as a doctor, a
esearcher, and a lecturer in global health. Ola and Anna were responsible for the data analysis,
inventive visual explanations, data stories, and simple presentation design. It was their idea to
measure ignorance systematically, and they designed and programmed our beautiful animated bu
le
charts. Dollar Street, a way of using photographs as data to explain the world, was Anna’s
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. Togethe
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 and the sense of amazement and delight at
witnessing the seemingly impossible.
When I was a child my dream was to become a circus artist. My parents’ dream, though, was fo
me to get the good education they never had. So I ended up studying medicine.
One afternoon at medical school, in an otherwise dry lecture about the way the throat worked, ou
professor explained, “If something is stuck, the passage can be straightened by pushing the chin bone
forward.” To illustrate, he showed an X-ray of a sword swallower in action.
I had a flash of inspiration. My dream was not over! A few weeks earlier, when studying reflexes, I
had discovered that of all my classmates, I could push my fingers farthest down my throat without
gagging. At the time, I had not been too proud: I didn’t think it was an important skill. But now I
understood its value, and instantly my childhood dream sprang back to life. I decided to become a
sword swallower.
My initial attempts weren’t encouraging. I didn’t own a sword so used a fishing rod instead, but no
matter how many times I stood in front of the bathroom mi
or 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
elevant, 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 and immediately resumed my
practice. Soon I could slide the handle all the way down my throat. I was excited, but being a soup
ladle shaft swallower was not my dream. The next day, I put an ad in the local paper and soon I had
acquired what I needed: a Swedish army bayonet from 1809. As I successfully slid it down my throat,
I felt both deeply proud of my achievement and smug that I had found such a great way to recycle
weapons.
Sword swallowing has always shown that the seemingly impossible can be possible, and inspired
humans to think beyond the obvious. Occasionally I demonstrate this ancient Indian art at the end of
one of my lectures on global development. I step up onto a table and rip off my professorial checked
shirt to reveal a black vest top decorated with a gold sequined lightning bolt. I call for complete
silence, and to the swirling beat of a snare drum I slowly slide the army bayonet down my throat. I
stretch out my arms. The audience goes wild.
Test Yourself
This book is about the world, and how to understand it. So why start with the circus? And why would
I end a lecture by showing off in a sparkly top? I’ll soon explain. But first, I would like you to test
your knowledge about the world. Please find a piece of 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:
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Shubhashree answered on Dec 08 2021
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1.
    “Factfulness”, this book was written by Hans Rosling. In this book, Hans Roling who was a medical doctor, tells us many stories in his life with which gives us vision to think on a fact based worldview. In the introduction part of this book author wants us to give the test to check our knowledge about the world. I appeared for the test which having 13 questions and out of 13 questions I got just 6 co
ect answers. While the question number 7 was more surprising for me. Question number 7 tells the fact that over past few years annual deaths disasters have decreased by 75 percent while many of us thinks that due to increased pollution around world, nature affected to great extent which leads to the increase in natural disasters. In between 2007–2016 around 80,386 people were killed by natural disasters each year.
2.
Hans Rosling, highlighted many facts in each chapter of this book and named each chapter with different instincts like gap, negativity, fear, blame, etc. All these facts explained in each chapter make me to think that our quick-thinking is leading to wrong conception and overdramatic worldview. How we behave on our failure, or on success and each day to day activity, we can relate each instinct with ourselves. I found that many people around me are not happy with what they do but always had fear that what if they stop working for their...
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