25 Discussion Questions for Factfulness by Hans Rosling (With Analysis) | Chapterly Blog
Hans Rosling's Factfulness reveals that most people — including highly educated professionals — have a dramatically wrong understanding of the state of the world. These Factfulness discussion questions examine the ten cognitive instincts that distort our worldview, why we systematically believe the world is worse than it actually is, and what a fact-based framework for understanding global progress looks like. Whether you are in a book club, a data literacy course, or interested in correcting your own misconceptions, these questions will challenge you to think more clearly about the world. Published in 2018 (Rosling passed away during its writing, and his son and daughter-in-law completed it), the book uses data, personal stories from Rosling's decades as a global health physician, and a series of multiple-choice questions that most people get wrong to demonstrate that our instincts mislead us about poverty, population growth, education, and health — and that the world is, by most measures, far better than we think. These 25 questions are organized by theme. Factfulness Discussion Questions: The Gap Instinct and Global Reality Rosling opens with a devastating demonstration: he gives audiences of Nobel laureates, CEOs, and world leaders basic multiple-choice questions about global poverty, literacy, and health...