The World is Getting Better Than You Think - A Statistical Analysis of Things That Are Improving

Is the world getting better or worse? The answer is quite complex. But there are a lot of good things happening in the world that get overshadowed by the bad ones. Which makes us feel like there is no progress and everything is getting worse than it already was. Therefore, we decided to statistically prove to you how good things are improving in the world, how bad things are reducing, and why you think everything is getting worse in this episode of the FutureIQ podcast. Links mentioned in the episode: The Science Of Being Happy: https://youtu.be/reYUf2nkcQg Antifragile episode: https://youtu.be/75RulJrHFMc Book - Factfulness: https://tapthe.link/FactfulnessBook More Videos: Why Surge Pricing Feels Wrong: https://youtu.be/IsHPxh-C0Sw https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better : The world is much better. But: The world is awful. The world can be much better. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen : Hans Rosling TED Talk https://ourworldindata.org/wrong-about-the-world: People are wrong about how good/bad the world is https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/32-improvements/ : 32 improvements in the world shown in charts (16 bad things reducing and 16 good things increasing) Hope you enjoyed FutureIQ by Navin Kabra and Shrikant Joshi. Do hit us up on Twitter: @ngkabra http://twitter.com/ngkabra @shrikant https://twitter.com/shrikant Listen it on the podcast provider of your choice: https://tapthe.link/FutureIQRSS Watch other episodes of The FutureIQ podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAppTB0r5_TaYueZ0adD42Wiw5X-wTE4v 00:00 Introduction 02:52 Things that have improved 10:06 Why do we think it's getting worse? 11:46 Good things getting better 15:38 The importance of good news #futureiq #goodnews