The 'zero tolerance' discourses on FGC fail to acknowledge this. This paper highlights the fact that FGC is a dynamic practice, with changes in the practice that are ongoing, and that those changes are different in different contexts. This framework also highlights the importance of multidisciplinarity to understand causalities of the FGC issue, which the authors argue is essential.

The Factfulness framework helps to acknowledge that FGC is not a uniform practice and helps address that variability. In this paper, the Factfulness framework is applied to female genital cutting (FGC), in order to identify possible biases and promote evidence-based thinking in studies on FGC, clinical guidelines on management of FGC, and interventions aimed at abolishing FGC. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.Rosling et al's book Factfulness aims to inspire people to use strong supporting facts in their decision-making, with 10 rules of thumb to fight dramatic instincts. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective?from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. When asked simple questions about global trends?what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty why the world’s population is increasing how many girls finish school?we systematically get the answers wrong. Factfulness: Ten Reasons we’re wrong about the World and Why Things Are Better than You Thinkįactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

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