WIRED Book Club: Factfulness, by Hans Rosling

October 28, 2019January 25, 2020 Brian Satis 187 Views Wired

How do our instincts distort our worldview? Can you tell when data is being manipulated to tell a specific story? And is the world really as bad as it seems?

Welcome to the WIRED Book Club. This month we’ve been reading Factfulness, by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund.

Hans Rosling was a Swedish doctor well known for his TED talks on statistics, who passed away in 2017. Ola Rosling is his son and Anna Rosling Rönnlund is his daughter in law, and they wrote the book together based on their work at the Gapminder Foundation, which is all about using statistics to show the reality of the world.

Here we discuss what we thought of the book, including what’s good about it, the things that could be better and how data changes our world view.

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Show produced and edited by Matt Burgess

Brian Satis

Brian is WhatPod's Technology Editor. San Jose resident and veteran of the first Silicon Valley tech boom, Brian is founder of Duotone Game Studio and a contributing writer for Synthetic Dimensions, Podzone and Tech News Monthly.Got a podcast to suggest ? Contact Brian (brian.satis@whatpod.com.au)