a statistician who died in 2017. it's not that he was an optimist or pessimist for that matter he was really into facts i have just one little humble advice to. everything else look at the day. look at the facts about the world we. face huge challenges the good news is that the future may not be quite as gloomy and that mankind already is doing better than many of you think. 2015 survey of 17 countries did indeed find that a clear majority of people there think the world is getting worse rosling identified a key driver of global pessimism the media he said they were not to be trusted and failed to provide the big picture the oxford martin school website also says that popular misperceptions reveal a failure of our media and our education systems news outlets tend to focus on