Women in STEM Bookclub: Factfulness

This bookclub is for women in STEM to explore workplace related themes that are centered on women, STEM issues and leadership. Through these book explorations, we share experiences, exchange new ideas and get support for whatever challenges we are currently facing.

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Title: Factfulness: 10 reasons we're wrong about the world
By: Hans Rosling

Things aren't as bad as we think. Fact.

When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, legendary statisticians Hans, Anna and Ola Rosling offer a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we let the bad news take on outsize proportions instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.

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Whether you love the book, hate it, read one chapter, saw a YouTube video or never got around to reading it but would like to hear about it, please come join us! This is opportunity to join some fabulous fabulous women for conversation and lunch.

Hope to see you there!
Tara