It Isn't As Bad As You Think

“When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world's population lives in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, investment bankers, and Nobel laureates,” says Hans Rosling . In his book, Factfulness, he claims our problem is that we know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. ¹ It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better shape than we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threatens us most.

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