What if I told you what you knew about the world is likely less than what a chimp knows?
A running gag in the book ‘Factfulness’ revolves around the Gapminder Test, a ‘world facts’ quiz in which over 12,000 people from 14 countries, of various levels of education and executive powers constantly performed worse than chimps randomly choosing bananas. (Note: I did not do much better than the chimps either.)
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Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.
