Synopsis of Factfulness

The Size Instinct

The writer is a great volunteered doctor who’s been traveling around the world, especially those most undeveloped country, to provide health care to people that can’t afford them. Throughout his life, he’s eye witnessed the changes in what we think are the most rural places and got in close touch with the culture, the people, even the government there. However, when he started to give lecture on what he has seen, people living in so-called rich countries don’t believe it, and they have a developed a stubborn stereotype of the world.

At the beginning the writer summarised 13 questions about the world regarding, health care, energy, environment, and so on. He has asked these questions to numerous people around the world of all walks of life, however, very few got the right answer, in fact the result is even worse than a chimp’s. He found that people’s mind are clouded by those overdramatic events in this world thus they always think that the world is getting worse than better.

In this book, the writer, Hans Rosling, introduced the facts of the world, and explained 10 instincts of human being that lead us to misunderstanding.

The Size Instinct

When the author worked in Mozambique, the poorest countries in the world in early 1980s, he was the only doctor in the…