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真確 - 充斥網上的文章，有多少是真，多少是假

近來在找書看，隨意網上搜書看，看到這一本《真確 Factfullness》，連Bill Gate也極力推介，聲稱是入職微軟必讀的書，2018年更送給全美所有大學畢業生一人一本電子本，本來我對誰誰誰推介的這回事沒什麼興趣，這年頭有哪本書沒有名人推介？不過我就對這書的主題極有興趣，匆匆下載了看。

Nehmen die Straftaten zu (in den USA) oder ab? #Umfrage vs. #Realität. ...

Nehmen die Straftaten zu (in den USA) oder ab? #Umfrage vs. #Realität. #Statistics #Statistiken #Gewalt #factfulness (Quelle: Factfullnes von Hans Rosling)

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 24

p. 132 –136 In yet another size instinct example there’s room for pause on a different issue, perception. On pages 132-133 the author talks about two murders, one

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 23

p. 128 –132 In these pages, Hans Rosling talks about the size instinct. First, here’s some practical advice: “So if you are investing money to improve health on

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 22

p. 123 –128 At the beginning of the fifth chapter, Hans Rosling tells a story from his time as a doctor in Mozambique. By telling that story he illustrates how a

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 21

p. 118 –123 The final few pages on the topic of the fear instinct focus on terrorism. First, terrorism is an exception to the global trends discussed earlier in

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 20

p. 114 – 118 Hans Rosling offers even more convincing examples about how the fear instinct has helped humans to progress. Under the ‘Contamination’ header there’s

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 19

p. 112 – 114 Continuing on the issue of the fear instinct the author goes on informing us on various topics, highlighting how the fear instinct in humans has positively

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 18

p. 105-111 The author talks about the fear instinct using examples. What do people fear? Getting hurt, losing their freedom or getting infected. All these fears

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 17

p. 101-105 In the intro of the fourth chapter, the author shares an interesting and funny personal story. The story is also a good way to introduce us to the idea

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 16

p. 92-100 This chunk of information ends the chapter on the straight line instinct. The author covers all types of curves a trend might follow. The instinct is to

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 15

p. 89-92 There’s some more interesting stuff on population growth in the next few pages from where the Week 14 post left off, but I’ll mention the most important

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 14

p. 75-88 The topic of these pages is population growth. There's a nice explanation about the topic if you have no idea what’s expected to happen in the coming 80

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 13

p. 72-74 On pages 72 and 73 the author talks about his personal experience and how his family and society helped him. It’s interesting reading about this, but I

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 12

p. 70-72 In how to control the negativity instinct, which is covered in these pages, the author provides a helpful solution to all those ‘buts’ in the previous posts.

Factfulness

Just finished Factfulness, which I heartily recommend. Not only is it full of important facts about human progress, it is full of excellent discussions of our biases

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 11

p. 65 – 70 Here the author talks about the negativity instinct. He argues that people usually misremember the past. They tend to think things were better when they

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 10

p. 59-64 To further indicate that the world is doing so much better than we think it is the author provides us with some charts on 32 improvements. I’ll offer short

Spur of the Moment Guide to FACTFULNESS: WEEK 9

p. 53-59 In these pages, the author talks about life expectancy and how much it has improved since the 1800s. There’s a graph on page 55 that got me doing some

Bill Gates Gifts Graduates His Favorite Book On Positivity

Graduates for 2018, bill entryways need an extraordinary gift to you. The author of Microsoft proclaimed that he’s gifting american grads who done their associate’s,