As Rosling puts it, chimps would have done better than humans did. Thus in all three examples above, the correct answer is C. It therefore seems that people are biased against good news on such topics. Expert knowledge does not appear to be much help in overcoming this bent. Bad news is loudly reported and memorable, whereas incremental improvements tend to be neither. We misremember the past as better than it was. And we feel that it is unseemly to dwell on the good when so much is bad.
Most of his book consists of helpful tricks for overcoming the mental habits that can lead us astray, and tips for interpreting and digesting data. Awash with graphs, it documents improvements in human life, mostly from around the nineteenth century onward. His Gradgrindian juggernaut plows through health, wealth, food, happiness, the environment, peace, and human rights, among other things, and the upshot is that lots of things have on average been getting better in most places for a while.
Even some acts of God are becoming less irksome. This happy fact results from acts of mankind, namely better medical treatment, weather prediction, and safety training, plus shifts of population from rural to urban areas.
Its forays into archaeology and the Middle Ages did not fare well under expert scrutiny. His commitment to the cause of spreading good news, though, does blinker him now and then. For example, a chapter on economic inequality smacks of rhetorical sleight of hand. That is a reasonable point. Whether or not these problems are properly designated as inequalities is a side issue: what matters is that they are regrettable developments.
Pinker is thumping a bible that he rarely opens. And when he does open it, he mainly sees a mirror. How much did thinkers have to do with it all, though? Perhaps we are to suppose that the Enlightenment was responsible for the Industrial Revolution. Much of it is a sort of hunting ground for the pursuit of assorted bugbears, in which Pinker takes issue with various enemies and supposed enemies of the Enlightenment.
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