When some people think about the world and its future they panic!

人們一想到世界跟未來，就開始恐慌！

My name is Hans Rosling. I'm a statistician that-- no, no, no, no, don't switch off!

我是漢斯・羅斯林，我是個統計學家⋯⋯不不不，別關掉！

He would compare Sweden in the past with some of the poor countries today.

他將以前的瑞典和現今一些貧困國家做比較。

He would show very important insights about how things have changed and that's culminated in this book called "Factfulness".

分享世界改變的重要觀察，這些精彩部分都在《真確: 扭轉十大直覺偏誤, 發現事情比你想的美好》中。

It's a collaboration between him and his son Ola, and daughter-in-law Anna.

本書是漢斯和他的兒子歐拉、媳婦安娜一起合作的作品。

He was always criticizing the word developed and developing,

他總是批評「已開發」和「開發中」這些字眼。

but for the first time in this book he teaches you a categorization of four tiers that is super helpful and associates it with things like, tier one, no bike.

在此書中他首次傳授超有用的「四等級分類世界架構法」像是，第一等級，沒有腳踏車。

Tier two, bike. Tier three, some cars in the picture. Tier four, a lot of cars, too many cars.

第二等級，腳踏車；第三等級，開始有些車；第四等級，很多車、太多車了。

You can actually call into your head a set of pictures that Anna in particular has made about...

你可以將這些圖像印在腦海裡，安娜甚至特別製作了一系列圖片⋯⋯

Oh, that's your house, that's your kitchen, that's your toilet.

你能看出那是你的房子、你的廚房，還有廁所。

At those four levels of wealth and that helps you understand that the average person is getting a lot wealthier

在這四個財富等級裡，你可以知道普通人已變得更加富有，

and he helps you frame whenever a plane falls out of the sky versus other deaths, it gets ridiculously more coverage.

也指出了，比起其他死亡事件，墜機事件總是出奇地得到更高的關注。

The things that cause that distortive effect of news, he's putting it on to the individual to step back and have a certain framework that helps you slot in the news.

漢斯認為，想不受新聞扭曲事實影響，每個人都需退一步並設立思考框架，幫助你不被新聞牽著鼻子走。

This is one of the most educational books I've ever read.

《真確: 扭轉十大直覺偏誤, 發現事情比你想的美好》是我讀過最具教育意義的書之一。

It covers a space that it's not easy to go learn about.

裡面的內容不是這麼容易取得。

The world would be better if literally millions of people read the book.

如果真的有數以百萬的人讀過這本書，世界會變得更美好。

I give it my highest recommendation.

我真心推薦這本書。