![]() ![]() Once this point is made, Rosling goes on to describe 10 instincts that lead people to be so consistently wrong. In fact, chimpanzees more often choose the correct answers by chance alone than do people from around the world. ![]() Hans Rosling, with assistance from his son and daughter-in-law, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, points out that most people get questions related to the state of life around the world wrong. This is one of 13 questions presented at the beginning of the book, Factfulness. The highest number of correct answers was given in Sweden and, even there, only 21 percent answered correctly. ![]() residents asked this question got it right, and residents of many other countries did no better in informal surveys conducted by the author. If you read this month’s “News and Views” article, you are likely to get this answer right (C. How many of the world’s 1-year-old children today have been vaccinated against some disease? ![]()
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