HSR TecBEC: Factfulness
Questions and answers to the book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling.
Questions and answers to the book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling.
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What country did Rosling use as an example to show fast change in middle-income countries in the 1990's? (p. 174)
Iran which has had fast improvements in health, education and stopping population growth.
What is more telling about the number of babies a woman has: income or religion? (p. 175)
Income.
What is often expected of women in Asian cultures? (p. 177)
To look after in-laws and children.
What does Rosling claim about patriarchal values? (p. 179)
Macho values are disappearing also in Asian and African countries with social and economic progress.
What does Rosling suggest doing to realise that things are in fact changing within cultures? (p. 180/181)
Tals to grandpa, update data and knowledge.
What was Rosling's vision for Africe in 2063?
What was the chairwoman of the African Union's response? (p. 182)
According to Rosling, Africa would have escaped extreme poverty.
But according to her, this was no vision for Africa. Her vision was that Africans would be equal to Europeans.
His grandchildren would visit Africa and travel on high speed trains here. But she wanted her grandchildren to be tourists in Europe and not unwanted refugees.
Why do people tend to focus on a single perpective when it comes to understanding the world? (p. 187)
Political and professional ideology (free market, equality, etc.)
How do experts score at Rosling's world knowlege quizzes? (p. 188)
Just as bad as normal people because they are only experts in one field.
What do activists have the tendency to do (whether knowingly or not)? (p. 189)
Exaggregate and have a singular perspective.
How can we get a better understanding of the world? (p. 192)
We need statistics and numbers, but not numbers alone - observing.
Who described their country as the healthiest of the poor?
Did Rosling agree? (p. 196)
Cuba's Minister of Health.
Rosling thought that Cuba's ideology held it back from making economic progress.
What is the problem with the healthcare system in the USA? (p. 199)
- Absence of basic public health insurance
- rich insured patients going to doctors too often, running up costs
- poor patients cannot afford inexpensive treatments and are dying younger that they should
What does Rosling criticise about the two countries (Cuba & USA)? (p. 200)
Both are cought in a single-perspective mind-set.
What does Rosling believe is the best was to run a country? (p. 201)
Liberal democracy although evidence does not support this stance as many countries have made enormous progress without being democracies.
What analogy does Rosling refer to in order to control the single perspective instinct? (p. 202)
Hammer and nail, toolbox (no one tool is good enough for everything, be open to ideas from others fields).
What was the author’s dream as a child? (p. 1)
To become a sword swallower
What did he end up studying? (p. 1)
Medicine
How does the author assue that the reader will perform better in the test by the end of the book?
He introduces a simple set of thinking tools
What happened in 2015 at the World Economic Forum in Davos? (p. 12)
Even this top international audience were getting basic facts about the world wrong.
Why was the dramatic worldview so persistent? (p. 12-17)
We all have the dramatic worldview which is based on the way our brains work. The human brain is a product of millions of years of evolution, relying on instincts for survical and craving for drama.
What is the benefit of a fact-based world view?
We make better decsions, are aware of real dangers and possibilities, and are no longer stressed about the wrong things (p 16)
What is the mega misconception about the world? (p. 21)
That the world is devided in two - them versus us, the west and the rest.
What is wrong with this picture? (p. 28)
It is outdated. It belongs to 1965. 75% live in middle income countries today.
What are the four income levels? (p. 34-37)
- 1$ a day, 5 children, can't afford medical care
- 4$ a day, can buy medicine but this expense would throw you back to level 1
- 16$ a day, work 7 days a week, they have electricity
- over 64$ a day
How many people were on level 1 200 years ago? (p. 38)
86% of the world population was livng in extreme poverty.
What are the three warning signs that someone is telling an overdramatic gap story and thereby triggering the gap instinct? (p. 39)
- comparisons of averages (averages can mislead by hiding a big spread; comparisons of averages tend to hide the overlaps),
- extremes (can disguise that most people are in the middle)
- and the view from up there (people on level 4 tend to overlook the big differences between levels 1, 2 and 3 as they all look ‘poor’ from the perspective of level 1)
How does the author summarise Factfulness at the end of chapter 1? (p. 46)
- Recognise the gap,
- look for majority,
- beware of comparisons of acerages and extremes
How did the author escape death as a child? (p. 48)
Falling into a sewage ditch and being saves by his grandmother.
What do the majority of people think is happening to the world? (p. 51)
The world is bad and it is getting worse.
How many people lived in extreme poverty 20 years ago, in 1997, and what is this figure in 2017? (p. 53)
- 29% in 1997
- today it is 9%
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