Book · 2018 · Critical thinking
Factfulness
#192 of 16,684 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 16
- people
- 14
- podcasts
- 7
- episodes
- 15
- critical mentions
- 0
And you know you read books like uh factfulness which is a book I read a couple years ago and it describes how the world has really never been better than it currently is.
What they say about it
- Describes how world is improving“how the world is getting better”3
- Highly recommends the book“i'd highly recommend it”2
The best things said about it
Read this wonderful book by Hans Rosling, Factfulness, where he interviewed university professors and he gave them an exam about the state of the world... These professors on this exam did worse than if monkeys would have taken this test.
Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. This is a book that just brings global health data to the world.
My first book is called Factfulness and it's by Hans Rosling and anyone that knows my work or knows our own data will know that you know we were massive of Hans Rosling and it was a big inspiration to me.
There's a wonderful book Factfulness which talks about the data of how the world is getting better.
Michael Acton Smith The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Jan 2022 I read a book called fact fullness it's 10 reasons we're wrong about the world and why things are better than you think.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
14 people who brought it up
- Mike Israetel2 mentions · 2 recs
- Brad Barrett2 mentions · 1 rec
- Danielle Smith1 mention · 1 rec
- David Hauser1 mention · 1 rec
- Ellie Hassenfeld1 mention · 1 rec
- George TheTinMen1 mention · 1 rec
- Hannah Ritchie1 mention · 1 rec
James Smith1 mention · 1 rec- Nir Eyal1 mention · 1 rec
- Rory Sutherland1 mention · 1 rec
- Sam Corcos1 mention · 1 rec
- Terry Virts1 mention · 1 rec
Why people recommend it
Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund is an eye-opening examination of global health, societal progress, and humanity's inherent misconceptions about the state of the world. The book uses data to demonstrate how things are statistically improving despite widespread pessimism. Nir Eyal recommended the book on Modern Wisdom to highlight how even university professors perform worse than random chance on global statistics, illustrating a pervasive negativity bias. Ellie Hassenfeld endorsed the work on The Ezra Klein Show as an effective compilation of vital global health data. Terry Virts recommended the title on The Joe Rogan Experience, noting that Bill Gates had previously championed its positive outlook. Hannah Ritchie discussed the book on The Ezra Klein Show, acknowledging it as a major inspiration for her own data-driven work. Sam Corcos, George TheTinMen, and Mike Israetel also recommended the text across various podcast appearances as a high-level summary of human progress and an antidote to pessimistic worldviews. Throughout these discussions, the speakers emphasized the book's value in reshaping perceptions and grounding global conversations in verifiable, uplifting statistical realities.
Every mention
Mike Israetel and there has been a profound amount of research done on this uh Hans rossling's book factfulness is probab… 2
Recommended
“and there has been a profound amount of research done on this uh Hans rossling's book factfulness is probably a really good place to go for it a great sort of high level summary”
Recommended
“Hans rossling's book factfulness is probably a really good place to go for it”
Brad Barrett and you know you read books like uh factfulness which is a book I read a couple years ago and it describes… 2
Recommended
“and you know you read books like uh factfulness which is a book I read a couple years ago and it describes how the world has really never been better than it currently is”
Discussed
“I read a book called fact fullness it's 10 reasons we're wrong about the world and why things are better than you think”
Danielle Smith I I read a a book by Hans Roslyn called factualness I don't know if you read it a couple of years ago it's… 1
Recommended
“I I read a a book by Hans Roslyn called factualness I don't know if you read it a couple of years ago it's a great book”
David Hauser yeah I've got one that I've read recently called factfulness which is actually very similar to that if you… 1
Recommended
“yeah I've got one that I've read recently called factfulness which is actually very similar to that if you haven't read that I'd highly recommend it”
Ellie Hassenfeld one is factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. This is a book that just brings global health data to to to th… 1
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“one is factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. This is a book that just brings global health data to to to the world.”
George TheTinMen really good book you should read Chris it's called factfulness by Hans rosaling 1
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“really good book you should read Chris it's called factfulness by Hans rosaling”
Hannah Ritchie so my first book is called factfulness and it's by Hans rosling and anyone that knows my work or knows our… 1
Recommended
“so my first book is called factfulness and it's by Hans rosling and anyone that knows my work or knows our own data will know that you know we were massive of Hans rosing and it was a big inspiration to me”
James Smith but there's a book called factfulness forgive me for how's yours thank [ __ ] for that 1
Recommended
“but there's a book called factfulness forgive me for how's yours thank [ __ ] for that”
Nir Eyal Well, that's not true. And if you don't believe me, read this wonderful book by Hans Rosling, Factfulness,… 1
Recommended
“Well, that's not true. And if you don't believe me, read this wonderful book by Hans Rosling, Factfulness, where he interviewed university professors and he gave them an exam about the state of the world... These professors on this exam did worse than if monkeys would have taken this test.”
Rory Sutherland two good books i'll recommend to your listeners factfulness by hans rosling 1
Recommended
“two good books i'll recommend to your listeners factfulness by hans rosling”
Sam Corcos There's a really good book Factfulness, I don't know if you've heard of that one. 1
Recommended
“There's a really good book Factfulness, I don't know if you've heard of that one.”
Terry Virts there's a book called factfulness have you ever read that no by hans rossling highly highly you need to rea… 1
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“there's a book called factfulness have you ever read that no by hans rossling highly highly you need to read it uh bill gates recommended it about a year ago and i it's amazing”
Marian Tupy so the idea behind the book was to inform and it is not really an attempt to produce a polyanish all optimi… 1
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“so the idea behind the book was to inform and it is not really an attempt to produce a polyanish all optimistic view on the world clearly there are problems that remain and there will be new problems that will arise but we believe there is some value in in in people knowing the facts factfulness than that hans rosling”
Michael Acton Smith You know there's a wonderful book factfulness which talks about the data of how the world is getting better. 1
Discussed
“You know there's a wonderful book factfulness which talks about the data of how the world is getting better.”
