Emotions vs. Facts – Can “Factfulness” Help Change the World?


2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Emotions vs. Facts – Can “Factfulness” Help Change the World?
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Tuesday, 29 August
90 minutes
English
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It feels like the world is going from one crisis to another. The subjective feeling of a downward spiral and the 
idea of "factfulness", as a way to open up minds for fact-based reasoning, are addressed and explained. Which 
role does factual knowledge play when it comes to maintaining democratic structures? What is businesses? 
and the economy's contribution? Can autocratic tendencies be prevented by factfulness?
Supported by Erste Group
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Speaker

Willibald Cernko

Chief Executive Officer Erste Group Bank AG
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Speaker

Anna Rosling

Co-Founder Gapminder Foundation
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Moderator

Martin Kotynek

editor-in-chief DER STANDARD