The world is getting better, but most of us don't notice. These 10 reasons are why we're inclined to mistakenly see things negatively.
. Rosling was highly concerned with the misperception that there are two widely separated groups of countries in the world—the West and the rest, or the developed and developing nations. This gap was real half a century ago, but as the TED talk shows, most countries are today clustered fairly closely to the developed end, with an increasingly small number of outliers fitting Western stereotypes of undeveloped nations.
Rosling’s 10 biases overlap a bit, and I don’t always agree with his conclusions about how to interpret the data. For example, he seems comfortable allowing population to increase and economic development to be encouraged in countries that still have a long way to go. His rationale is that once people become economically comfortable and get access to health care so their children survive, they tend to voluntarily reduce family size.
Rosling’s take on the data showing a general trend toward progress is consistent with Steven Pinker’s analysis (
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