Factfulness â€� Reader Q&A

Questions About Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World â€� and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Those who have read both books: should I read Guns, Germs and Steel? As GG&S tries to give explanation of how different countries end up having development gap. While Factfulness tries to convince people of how little the gap exists. P/S: GG&S failed when I did fact check, the oldest pottery was found in China, not South America.

Keith Swenson I read both, they are different books. Factfulness is a good summary about the current status of the world, and gives you a framework to understand thâ€¦m´Ç°ù±ðI read both, they are different books. Factfulness is a good summary about the current status of the world, and gives you a framework to understand that current state. It is not about trying to convince people that a gap does not exist, but shows that most people's understanding of the gap is many decades out of date -- and that harms efforts to help.

GG&S is a brilliant book that explains the structural reasons that certain historical trends happened in certain places. This gives you a lens on history develop, but not so much about why there is a gap, but why certain geographies were more condusive to to cultural grows at different levels of technology.

You will find GG&S enormously helpful in understanding history. I don't remember the age of pottery being an important part of his main point and this fact check seems unimportant. I would not be surprised a few errors like that might be in any book, but I don't think it would detract from the main message.

You must read both.(less)

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Has anyone read this book yet? If yes, What you liked about it the most.?

Reviewer The first few pages contain a quiz, and if you do as poorly as most people, this book will blow your mind. Be aware that you cannot read it entirely aâ€¦m´Ç°ù±ðThe first few pages contain a quiz, and if you do as poorly as most people, this book will blow your mind. Be aware that you cannot read it entirely as an audiobook. I was so conflicted about returning it, but I couldn't enjoy it properly without "the accompanying pdf" and if the reason you are using an audiobook is because you cannot see, are driving, etc. then you keep missing out. It became really frustrating, in a book done properly for the library for blind people someone describes the graphs and pictograms. You can't even use a screenreader to pick out information from an image pdf. Definitely read it, but just as definitely make sure you read a print copy or at least listen to the audiobook somewhere you can also sit down with a copy of the pdf(less)

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Have any African Americans read this book? I'm drawn to the topic, but I wonder if this book addresses racism, sexism, other-ism in general, unconscious bias, substandard education in the US, climate change and white male patriarchial plantation capitalist hegemony in general.These conditions seem to be double-downing and not getting better in the US.

Bernard FranÃ§ois The book is not specifically focused on the US, nor written from a US perspective, as it focuses more on understanding the world (as in, all counties,â€¦m´Ç°ù±ðThe book is not specifically focused on the US, nor written from a US perspective, as it focuses more on understanding the world (as in, all counties, also including the US of course).

It mainly looks at four major income levels within the world, and how these appear across all countries, and how life is similar across country borders for people within the same income levels.

It doesnâ€™t necessarily offer solutions, but it does help reader on their journey to better understand the world - and having a good understanding of what is going on is a great first step to making improvements within the conditions you listed.(less)

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Is the book still relevant 2 years later? Is the world still better than I think it is?