Introduction
How many percentage of people get the final question about the climate right?
1. 20% 2. 40% 3. 60% 4. 80%
4. 80%
When did the author felt his fingers numb fired up?
Octobor □□□□
1. 1985 2. 1990 3. 1995 4. 2000
3. 1995
How many improvements the author was talking more about?
32 improvements
The author uses the improvements of South Korea to argue that...
Democracy is not the single solution
2018
Name a way people devide themselves from others (ex. The West and the rest)
Developing/developed
High income/low income
etc.
What things are subjected to never-ending cascades of negative news from accross the world? (Name three things)
Wars, famines, natural disasters, political mistakes, corruption, budget cuts, diseases, mass layoffs, acts of terror
What does the author say about numbers and the world?
The world cannot be understood without numbers, and it cannot be understood with numbers alone.
What was the author's dream when he was a child?
A circus artist
The author shows two bubble charts of 1965 and 2017. He intended to show it is an outdated idea that...
Women in developed countries have less babies
People tend to have a '(answer)' view of their past, but most things are worse than how they remember it.
Rose-tinted
What does the author talk about experts and their fields?
Experts are experts only within their field, they usually do not admit that they do not have knowledge in other fields, etc.
What did the author include to eradicate ignorance?
He thought he needed to upgrade people's knowledge
What should you do to control the gap instinct?
Look for the majority
What does the author think is factfulness in this chapter?
Recognizing when we get negative news, and remembering that infromation about bad events is much more likely to reach us.
(Or something similar)
Provide an example how activists are not aware of their improvements.
Only 6% of the Swedish public knows that their support on animal protection had and effect.
What is this book about?
About the world and how it is / why people do not see the world as it really is
If the world population was 7 people, how many of them are in the third income level?
3
Which country answered the most to "getting worse"?
1. Belgium 2. Mexico 3. Turkey 4. Canada
3. Turkey
Name 2 ways of 'factfulness' in this chapter.
Test your ideas, Don't claim expertise beyond your claim, Remember no one tool is good for everything, Remember you cannot use numbers alone to understand the world, Beware of simple ideas and simple solutions