I genuinely got 9 out of the 13 questions right that Rosling poses at the beginning of the book, and 11 out of 13 if you allow two answers I originally thought correctly but then doubted myself and wondered if he was trying a double-bluff. Most fiction books fail to move me that much – how could a non-fiction work, chiefly about crunching numbers, have done so?īefore wading to that, I have to allow myself a little gloat. I most certainly did not expect to be in tears when I came to the end. What I didn’t expect, as I read it, was to find the book a rollercoaster of emotions. Hans Rosling’s book on how to ‘get it right’ and not allow yourself to believe or propagate what has come to be known as ‘fake news’ is now rightly considered a classic and very probably a ‘must-read’.
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