Three Rhesus monkeys in Bali, Indonesia Robert Heathman / Alamy Stock Photo
鶹ý readers are more knowledgeable than the general public and experts on some issues, but still score worse than monkeys on some questions.
“To score worse than monkeys requires misconceptions,” Ola Rosling, author of Factfulness, told 鶹ý Live on Thursday. Most people are not only ignorant about some basic facts about the world, they don’t even realise that they are ignorant, he said.
For example, globally around 88 per cent of children are now vaccinated against at least one disease, but most people think the…
