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Everybody Lies

By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
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Insightful, surprising and with groundbreaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our Internet searches, with a foreword by best-selling author Steven Pinker.

Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets - about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist and former Google data scientist, shows that this could just be the most important dataset ever collected.

This huge database of secrets - unprecedented in human history - offers astonishing, even revolutionary insights into humankind. Anxiety, for instance, does not increase after a terrorist attack. Crime levels drop when a violent film is released. And racist searches are no higher in Republican areas than in Democrat ones.

Stephens-Davidowitz reveals information we can use to change our culture and the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our health - both emotional and physical. Insightful, funny and always surprising, Everybody Lies exposes the biases and secrets embedded deeply within us, at a time when things are harder to predict than ever.

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Which is more than I managed with Daniel Kahneman’s thinking fast and slow I’m embarrassed to admit.

Full of fascinating facts about human nature backed with data.

Worth listening all the way to the end

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A brilliant book that will leave you brimming with ideas and possibilities. Well worth a read.

Brilliant!

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I enjoyed diving into our secrets. The honesty that big data reveals is startling scary

Startling discoveries about us

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I liked the book but wanted slightly more from it. The narrator was good. Some chapters dragged but generally contained an interesting insight. The narrative focussed a bit too much on sex in some parts. I'm not a prude but felt that the focus on sex didn't always lead to a necessary or interesting insight so was unecessary on occasion, maybe just good for the shock value. I really enjoy the subject of data analytics so would have preferred a deeper analysis into the area; however, I imagine some listeners will feel that the depth was appropriate. I would read more from this author on the subject in the future.

Interesting insights

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Fascinating study of how our data is collected, used and abused. Enlightening and sometimes worrying.

Interestng if you like this sort of thing.

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