0:00:01.280,0:00:02.960 Hi, my name is Ola Rosling. 0:00:03.180,0:00:05.260 and I'm Anna Rosling Rönnlund. 0:00:05.260,0:00:07.180 We founded the Gapminder Foundation 0:00:07.180,0:00:08.440 together with Hans Rosling, 0:00:08.540,0:00:09.500 Ola's father. 0:00:09.500,0:00:12.500 Together, the three of us have written a book: 0:00:12.780,0:00:13.740 Factfulness. 0:00:13.860,0:00:16.185 And it's actually gonna be available 0:00:16.185,0:00:18.100 in 24 languages pretty soon. 0:00:19.900,0:00:21.820 Unfortunately, one year ago 0:00:21.820,0:00:23.240 my father passed away 0:00:23.240,0:00:25.820 in the middle of writing the book together with us. 0:00:26.380,0:00:27.500 And since then 0:00:27.500,0:00:29.700 the two of us have spent night and day 0:00:29.900,0:00:31.340 finalising the book. 0:00:31.340,0:00:32.820 So we are very, very happy 0:00:32.820,0:00:34.200 that finally its ready. 0:00:35.140,0:00:37.380 And we are now gonna show you a clip 0:00:37.380,0:00:38.980 that we recorded two years ago 0:00:38.980,0:00:40.200 together with Hans. 0:00:41.900,0:00:44.720 It explains how we ended up deciding 0:00:44.760,0:00:46.040 to write this book. 0:00:49.100,0:00:51.740 It all started in this very living room. 0:00:52.020,0:00:53.440 17 years ago. 0:00:53.440,0:00:55.260 And at the dinner I couldn't resist 0:00:55.280,0:00:58.640 showing you my first version of this bubble graph 0:00:58.640,0:01:00.340 where each bubble is a country, 0:01:00.600,0:01:02.000 down here income, 0:01:02.540,0:01:06.580 here health, and color was different continents 0:01:06.580,0:01:08.640 And I remember that you sort of liked it. 0:01:08.640,0:01:11.220 Yeah, I did and we actually brought it home and 0:01:11.220,0:01:13.480 do you remember, we put it on our wall at home. 0:01:13.480,0:01:16.260 And the fun thing was that our friends also started liking it 0:01:16.260,0:01:19.080 So they started talking about the bubbles and so on and we.... 0:01:19.080,0:01:20.620 I think that was the starting point 0:01:20.820,0:01:23.760 when we realised that we really wanted to work further on the project. 0:01:24.160,0:01:27.120 So you were making an animated version of it, 0:01:27.280,0:01:31.360 and you started using the animated version on your lectures. 0:01:31.560,0:01:33.480 And it seemed quite popular. 0:01:33.480,0:01:35.660 And then we attracted so much data, 0:01:35.660,0:01:37.960 actually, so we realised, this won't work. 0:01:37.960,0:01:39.800 We need to somehow scale it up. 0:01:39.880,0:01:41.160 We were very lucky. 0:01:41.300,0:01:43.940 At that first TED talk in 2006. 0:01:44.040,0:01:46.440 We prepared jointly, my talk. 0:01:46.440,0:01:49.000 And then, when I had finished the talk, 0:01:49.000,0:01:51.540 two persons came rushing up on the stage. 0:01:51.700,0:01:52.900 First was Al Gore. 0:01:52.900,0:01:54.540 And the second was a little shorter. 0:01:54.680,0:01:58.140 It was Larry Page. The co-founder of Google. 0:01:58.140,0:02:00.520 And Larry Page looked at me, you know, 0:02:00.520,0:02:01.940 the old professor, then he said: 0:02:01.940,0:02:03.200 “Who wrote the code?” 0:02:03.200,0:02:05.900 He understood directly that this old man 0:02:05.900,0:02:06.880 hadn't done the code. 0:02:06.880,0:02:08.040 And I had to answer: 0:02:08.040,0:02:11.700 “Well, its my son, his wife and their team of programmers.” 0:02:11.700,0:02:14.580 “They are invited to come to Google and present it.” 0:02:14.580,0:02:17.280 Our hope was that Google would kind of steal the idea. 0:02:17.280,0:02:19.300 Instead they wanted us to work at Google, 0:02:19.300,0:02:22.400 to develop what later became Google Public Data. 0:02:22.780,0:02:25.740 Where users across the World can search data 0:02:25.740,0:02:28.320 and we liberated, together with the World Bank, 0:02:28.320,0:02:31.440 public data, and also from Eurostat, and others. 0:02:31.440,0:02:33.140 So, that in the search results, 0:02:33.140,0:02:35.800 you can find the latest statistics from the official source. 0:02:35.800,0:02:37.200 So that's a great achievement 0:02:37.200,0:02:39.140 to democratise access to data. 0:02:39.140,0:02:41.640 Unfortunately very few people search for data 0:02:41.640,0:02:44.380 and if you find the data, its often fragmented 0:02:44.500,0:02:46.860 You don't get the big worldview 0:02:46.860,0:02:49.080 from fragments in a Google result. 0:02:49.200,0:02:50.880 We went back to Gapminder 0:02:50.880,0:02:53.600 where we had left Hans some years earlier, 0:02:53.600,0:02:55.680 to actually develop teaching materials. 0:02:55.960,0:02:58.160 And for us to prioritise 0:02:58.160,0:03:00.500 we realised we should go out and just measure. 0:03:00.820,0:03:04.200 But what was the sad news, or shocking even, 0:03:04.360,0:03:07.180 was that people knew barely nothing, right? 0:03:07.180,0:03:08.920 The ignorance was so massive. 0:03:09.140,0:03:11.300 And you did public surveys, 0:03:11.440,0:03:13.380 with survey companies, through the internet. 0:03:13.720,0:03:15.480 and with those results, I said 0:03:15.480,0:03:18.240 “But the professional groups I lecture to now...” 0:03:18.420,0:03:23.920 you know, "...in United Nations, in universities and corporate sector...” 0:03:24.020,0:03:25.540 “They must know this.” 0:03:25.720,0:03:29.080 Then we got these answering devices. 0:03:29.080,0:03:31.720 where you can put questions and answers. 0:03:31.900,0:03:36.940 And to our surprise, we found the same lack of knowledge 0:03:36.940,0:03:41.460 of major demographic change, health change, economic change in the world. 0:03:41.760,0:03:45.040 And that's when we realised we have to write a book, 0:03:45.080,0:03:47.720 where we put all these things together. 0:03:48.080,0:03:50.800 And this is the book called Factfulness, 0:03:50.800,0:03:51.860 that we have done together. 0:03:53.780,0:03:56.260 This clip was recorded two years ago. 0:03:56.260,0:04:00.360 And since then, the Gapminder foundation has tested the general public 0:04:00.920,0:04:02.040 in 14 countries, 0:04:02.040,0:04:04.460 with fact-questions about the state of the World. 0:04:04.640,0:04:07.900 The results were absolutely terrible! 0:04:08.140,0:04:10.060 Even worse than we expected. 0:04:10.260,0:04:12.180 Among 12,000 people, 0:04:12.360,0:04:16.300 The vast majority got almost all the questions wrong, 0:04:16.340,0:04:18.100 as you will see in the book. 0:04:18.380,0:04:21.020 It seems like people are suffering from 0:04:21.140,0:04:23.060 an overdramatic worldview. 0:04:23.240,0:04:26.040 They think the world is in much worse shape 0:04:26.220,0:04:27.580 than it actually is. 0:04:27.580,0:04:29.620 And this leads to terrible decisions 0:04:29.740,0:04:31.900 and tons of unnecessary stress. 0:04:32.240,0:04:34.240 To solve this problem though, 0:04:34.240,0:04:37.080 we needed to understand how is it even possible 0:04:37.520,0:04:38.800 that so many people 0:04:39.200,0:04:41.600 are getting so many things so wrong? 0:04:42.620,0:04:46.020 Well, fortunately we found clear patterns 0:04:46.020,0:04:48.200 behind the common misconceptions. 0:04:48.220,0:04:49.820 And together with Hans, 0:04:50.040,0:04:53.820 we identified the 10 dramatic instincts 0:04:54.220,0:04:56.940 that make people misinterpret the World 0:04:57.080,0:04:58.340 again and again 0:04:58.340,0:05:01.120 and leading to an over dramatic world view. 0:05:01.600,0:05:04.280 It all sounds bad, but actually, 0:05:04.860,0:05:05.540 Our book 0:05:10.780,0:05:14.580 Actually, our book is truly comforting 0:05:14.860,0:05:17.820 because it gives you concrete rules of thumb 0:05:18.120,0:05:21.120 to control your dramatic instincts. 0:05:21.280,0:05:23.240 And it actually teaches you 0:05:23.240,0:05:25.480 the new relaxing thinking habit 0:05:25.560,0:05:28.480 which we call Factfulness. 0:05:28.500,0:05:30.820 And Hans´s stories are really fun.