If you push someone to give you an answer to some question they don't know, that's different from someone that goes around thinking and acting as though they know the answer.
Only the latter seems like a real misconception to me.
Gapminder is an attempt to show how outdated our view of the world are. The first time I had come across Rosling's TED talk (see my other comment), it did strike me how little I had actively looked into the state of the world and how the state is more optimistic than one can conclude from doomscrolling [0].
The people who like Gapminder, are they the type who like Bjørn Lomborg?