Factfulness

There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.

Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.

The world cannot be understood without numbers. But the world cannot be understood with numbers alone.

When things are getting better we often don’t hear about them. This gives us a systematically too-negative impression of the world around us, which is very stressful.

Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk.

Cultures, nations, religions, and people are not rocks. They are in constant transformation.

Stay open to new data and be prepared to keep freshening up your knowledge.

Slow change is still change

Risk = danger × exposure

It's not the numbers that are interesting. It's what they tell us about the lives behind the numbers.

Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into two distinct groups