{"product_id":"9781250123824","title":"Factfulness : Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World--and Why Things Are Better than You Think","description":"\u003cp\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But \u003ci\u003eFactfulness\u003c\/i\u003e does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eMelinda Gates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFactfulness\u003c\/i\u003e by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.\" - Former U.S. President Barack Obama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFactfulnes\u003c\/i\u003es: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen asked simple questions about global trends—\u003ci\u003ewhat percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school\u003c\/i\u003e—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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFactfulness\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers \u003cb\u003ea radical new explanation of why this happens\u003c\/b\u003e. They reveal \u003cb\u003ethe ten instincts that distort our perspective\u003c\/b\u003e—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of \u003ci\u003eus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethem\u003c\/i\u003e) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.\u003c\/b\u003e That does\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48256295338219,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":38.43,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781250123824-1.jpg?v=1781670284","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9781250123824","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}