It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns.
Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).
So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.įactfulness offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. When asked simple questions about global trends― what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty why the world’s population is increasing how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong.
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