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Rosling recommends thinking about the world as divided into four levels based on income brackets (rather than the prototypical developed/developing framework) and suggests ten instincts that prevent us from seeing real progress in the world. He demonstrates that his test subjects believe the world is poorer, less healthy, and more dangerous than it actually is, attributing this not to random chance but to misinformation. In the book, Rosling suggests that the vast majority of people are wrong about the state of the world. The book was published posthumously a year after Hans Rosling died from pancreatic cancer. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is a 2018 book by Swedish physician, professor of international health at Karolinska Institute and statistician Hans Rosling with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. ![]() ![]() ![]() He needs Ava and will do anything to have her.Įven hide every last skeleton in his large closet.īecause the truth could destroy them both. All except the one woman who unwittingly becomes his obsession and the only thing that can keep him from the brink of self-destruction. They fall at his feet, melt from his charismatic, devious smile, and obey his every salacious command. ![]() It only takes one look into her eyes, one touch of her skin, and one word murmured, before his heart is kick-started, offering him something he never thought possible. Until Ava O’Shea strolls into his office and knocks him back with her breathtaking beauty, ambition, and drive. 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