5/20/2023 0 Comments The factfulness![]() ![]() Instead, by associating people with economic levels, we can ignore national boundaries and focus on understanding – dare I say empathizing. ![]() Instead, the emerging terms related to economic categorization are now directed towards people, not nations.ĭiscussing situations based on national origin automatically groups everyone into a single category, even though there is economic diversity within each nation. ![]() Redefining Developing/Developed Countries with FactfulnessĪnother important concept presented by Factfulness is a reset of the term(s) “Developing/Developed Countries” (terms we still use in this newsletter). Unfortunately, much of the progress the quiz demonstrates is rolling back due to COVID-19 ( see philanthropy article). If you stopped to take the quiz, what did you think about your score? Were the answers what you expected? While I won’t go into the questions or answers posed in the quiz, I will say that it provides several statistics and provable facts relating to our world’s progress in various areas, including education, reducing poverty, and saving endangered creatures. Before we began reading, each of us took the Factfulness Quiz – an activity I highly recommend.Ĭonsider taking the quiz before you continue reading. While traveling overseas before COVID-19, I had my family read Hans Rosling’s book, Factfulness, Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. ![]()
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