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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.

©2017 Seth StephensDavidowitz (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Elections & Political Process Politics & Government Sociology Thought-Provoking Inspiring Health Mental Health
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Though this book certainly has some merit in it's analysis of Big Data it is written by an American for Americans. All the references and examples are to American people and American institutions. I don't recall a single mention of Europe or the wider world. Thus, after the first few quite interesting chapters I found it hard going.

Has some value but totally American

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As a scientist I love the methodical and scientifically sound studies that can finally be made in the social sciences due to the vast amounts of data that we are creating in the modern world.

Paradigm shifting book!

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its a very different way to look at yhe world around you. I liked the book and the authors approach

interest book

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Great listen.

Really enjoy the book and the concept is endlessly fascinating.

Enjoyed the areas where the problems with big data were highlighted as well, brought some balance to things for me.

Big data

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A light look at big data research, it's benefits and drawbacks, with some really interesting insights. Another reminder that correlation doesn't imply causation.

Great listen

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