1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:02,960 Hi, my name is Ola Rosling. 2 00:00:03,180 --> 00:00:05,260 and I'm Anna Rosling Rönnlund. 3 00:00:05,260 --> 00:00:07,180 We founded the Gapminder Foundation 4 00:00:07,180 --> 00:00:08,440 together with Hans Rosling, 5 00:00:08,540 --> 00:00:09,500 Ola's father. 6 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:12,500 Together, the three of us have written a book: 7 00:00:12,780 --> 00:00:13,740 Factfulness. 8 00:00:13,860 --> 00:00:16,185 And it's actually gonna be available 9 00:00:16,185 --> 00:00:18,100 in 24 languages pretty soon. 10 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:21,820 Unfortunately, one year ago 11 00:00:21,820 --> 00:00:23,240 my father passed away 12 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,820 in the middle of writing the book together with us. 13 00:00:26,380 --> 00:00:27,500 And since then 14 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:29,700 the two of us have spent night and day 15 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:31,340 finalising the book. 16 00:00:31,340 --> 00:00:32,820 So we are very, very happy 17 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:34,200 that finally its ready. 18 00:00:35,140 --> 00:00:37,380 And we are now gonna show you a clip 19 00:00:37,380 --> 00:00:38,980 that we recorded two years ago 20 00:00:38,980 --> 00:00:40,200 together with Hans. 21 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:44,720 It explains how we ended up deciding 22 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,040 to write this book. 23 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:51,740 It all started in this very living room. 24 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:53,440 17 years ago. 25 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,260 And at the dinner I couldn't resist 26 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,640 showing you my first version of this bubble graph 27 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,340 where each bubble is a country, 28 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,000 down here income, 29 00:01:02,540 --> 00:01:06,580 here health, and color was different continents 30 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:08,640 And I remember that you sort of liked it. 31 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,220 Yeah, I did and we actually brought it home and 32 00:01:11,220 --> 00:01:13,480 do you remember, we put it on our wall at home. 33 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,260 And the fun thing was that our friends also started liking it 34 00:01:16,260 --> 00:01:19,080 So they started talking about the bubbles and so on and we.... 35 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,620 I think that was the starting point 36 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:23,760 when we realised that we really wanted to work further on the project. 37 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,120 So you were making an animated version of it, 38 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,360 and you started using the animated version on your lectures. 39 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,480 And it seemed quite popular. 40 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,660 And then we attracted so much data, 41 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:37,960 actually, so we realised, this won't work. 42 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:39,800 We need to somehow scale it up. 43 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,160 We were very lucky. 44 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:43,940 At that first TED talk in 2006. 45 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,440 We prepared jointly, my talk. 46 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,000 And then, when I had finished the talk, 47 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,540 two persons came rushing up on the stage. 48 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:52,900 First was Al Gore. 49 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:54,540 And the second was a little shorter. 50 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,140 It was Larry Page. The co-founder of Google. 51 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:00,520 And Larry Page looked at me, you know, 52 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:01,940 the old professor, then he said: 53 00:02:01,940 --> 00:02:03,200 “Who wrote the code?” 54 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,900 He understood directly that this old man 55 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:06,880 hadn't done the code. 56 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,040 And I had to answer: 57 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,700 “Well, its my son, his wife and their team of programmers.” 58 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:14,580 “They are invited to come to Google and present it.” 59 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:17,280 Our hope was that Google would kind of steal the idea. 60 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,300 Instead they wanted us to work at Google, 61 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:22,400 to develop what later became Google Public Data. 62 00:02:22,780 --> 00:02:25,740 Where users across the World can search data 63 00:02:25,740 --> 00:02:28,320 and we liberated, together with the World Bank, 64 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,440 public data, and also from Eurostat, and others. 65 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,140 So, that in the search results, 66 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:35,800 you can find the latest statistics from the official source. 67 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:37,200 So that's a great achievement 68 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,140 to democratise access to data. 69 00:02:39,140 --> 00:02:41,640 Unfortunately very few people search for data 70 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,380 and if you find the data, its often fragmented 71 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:46,860 You don't get the big worldview 72 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:49,080 from fragments in a Google result. 73 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,880 We went back to Gapminder 74 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,600 where we had left Hans some years earlier, 75 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,680 to actually develop teaching materials. 76 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,160 And for us to prioritise 77 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,500 we realised we should go out and just measure. 78 00:03:00,820 --> 00:03:04,200 But what was the sad news, or shocking even, 79 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,180 was that people knew barely nothing, right? 80 00:03:07,180 --> 00:03:08,920 The ignorance was so massive. 81 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:11,300 And you did public surveys, 82 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,380 with survey companies, through the internet. 83 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,480 and with those results, I said 84 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,240 “But the professional groups I lecture to now...” 85 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:23,920 you know, "...in United Nations, in universities and corporate sector...” 86 00:03:24,020 --> 00:03:25,540 “They must know this.” 87 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,080 Then we got these answering devices. 88 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,720 where you can put questions and answers. 89 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:36,940 And to our surprise, we found the same lack of knowledge 90 00:03:36,940 --> 00:03:41,460 of major demographic change, health change, economic change in the world. 91 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,040 And that's when we realised we have to write a book, 92 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,720 where we put all these things together. 93 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,800 And this is the book called Factfulness, 94 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:51,860 that we have done together. 95 00:03:53,780 --> 00:03:56,260 This clip was recorded two years ago. 96 00:03:56,260 --> 00:04:00,360 And since then, the Gapminder foundation has tested the general public 97 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,040 in 14 countries, 98 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,460 with fact-questions about the state of the World. 99 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,900 The results were absolutely terrible! 100 00:04:08,140 --> 00:04:10,060 Even worse than we expected. 101 00:04:10,260 --> 00:04:12,180 Among 12,000 people, 102 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,300 The vast majority got almost all the questions wrong, 103 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:18,100 as you will see in the book. 104 00:04:18,380 --> 00:04:21,020 It seems like people are suffering from 105 00:04:21,140 --> 00:04:23,060 an overdramatic worldview. 106 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,040 They think the world is in much worse shape 107 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:27,580 than it actually is. 108 00:04:27,580 --> 00:04:29,620 And this leads to terrible decisions 109 00:04:29,740 --> 00:04:31,900 and tons of unnecessary stress. 110 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,240 To solve this problem though, 111 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,080 we needed to understand how is it even possible 112 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:38,800 that so many people 113 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,600 are getting so many things so wrong? 114 00:04:42,620 --> 00:04:46,020 Well, fortunately we found clear patterns 115 00:04:46,020 --> 00:04:48,200 behind the common misconceptions. 116 00:04:48,220 --> 00:04:49,820 And together with Hans, 117 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,820 we identified the 10 dramatic instincts 118 00:04:54,220 --> 00:04:56,940 that make people misinterpret the World 119 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,340 again and again 120 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:01,120 and leading to an over dramatic world view. 121 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,280 It all sounds bad, but actually, 122 00:05:04,860 --> 00:05:05,540 Our book 123 00:05:10,780 --> 00:05:14,580 Actually, our book is truly comforting 124 00:05:14,860 --> 00:05:17,820 because it gives you concrete rules of thumb 125 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,120 to control your dramatic instincts. 126 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,240 And it actually teaches you 127 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,480 the new relaxing thinking habit 128 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,480 which we call Factfulness. 129 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:30,820 And Hans´s stories are really fun.