Factfulness

书名：FactfulnessTenReasonsWe'reWrongabouttheWorld–AndWhyThingsAreBetterThanYouThink
作者：HansRosling
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ISBN：9781250107817
出版社：MacmillanUSA
出版时间：2018-4-3
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：352
豆瓣评分： 8.5

书籍简介：

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live 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, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state 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 threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.

作者简介：

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 co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and he was listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing Factfulness.

Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans's son and daughter-in-law, were co-founders of the Gapminder Foundation, and Ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. After Google acquired the bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, invented and designed by Anna and Ola, Ola became head of Google's Public Data Team and Anna the team’s senior user experience (UX) designer. They have both received international awards for their work.

书友短评：

@ DOKA 知道Hans Rosling这位风趣的瑞典教授，是因为他在Ted Talk用视觉统计学演绎人口变化，是个可以跨界做脱口秀的学者！先生推荐他的这本书Factfulness，文如其人，轻松幽默，同时教读者理性冷冰冰的分析数据。他用的例子都好奇特：比如他会玩吞剑的杂技（我专门上Youtube搜了，好精彩），以表明没有什么是不可能的；他还会翻出自己的陈年糗事，在急诊室工作时以为病人大出血，结果发现那血只是糖浆还是颜料，以证明恐惧的本能容易导致误判；或是提起年轻时在超市见到婴儿床，会跑上前去把仰卧睡觉的婴儿翻成俯卧（那个年代认为俯睡能防止婴儿呛噎致死）。好文，要向他这个审慎乐观的”可能主义者“(possibilist)学习。 @ 叮当想旅行 比尔盖茨的上半年推荐书。前面的章节，可以作为平克的“这个世界在变好吗”的注脚，但比平克的要易读；整书可以作为Critical thinking的指引，但有时候觉得作者扩散得有点大，会讨论到不是他专业领域的事情，但并不严重，也不令人厌烦，因为作者的行文一直很平和，让人舒服。作者认为，基于事实的世界观值得追求且最终也是会实现的：- 首先，这对生活有重要的指导意义- 其次，基于事实的生活模式，让人更放松一些，从而也活得从容一些 @ 娜就一露走皓 本人gapminder和dollar street版块忠实用户，这本书不过是把各类宣传片和TED演讲里陈述过的数据放在一起再讲了一遍而已。。。 @ 翠了个黄 作者很厉害，阅历丰富，看完可以拓宽自己看问题的角度，受益匪浅。 @ 闪电般的瘦子 作者的遗作，非常让人敬佩的一位作者。很好读，也解释了一些我的疑惑。让人可以更客观的认识这个世界。比如说提高极度贫困地区的儿童的生存几率并不会让这个世界增加更多人口，反而会减少人口增长。让我意识到了我自己最容易陷入的Urgent instinct，很有意义有帮助的一本书。 @ 已注销 用数据告诉我们这个世界在一点一点的变好 这本书对白人很有用 因为他们太self-centric 我们可以做休闲读物 @ 林文武贝 Bad but better. 2020看这本书有降低恐惧的效果。

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