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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.

©2017 Seth StephensDavidowitz (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Elections & Political Process Politics & Government Sociology Democrat Health
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I normally read the first 50 pages of these kind of books but this was different. A good insightful storyteller. Fascinating points around big data, I don’t think I’ll believe anything ever again :)

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This is an utterly fascinating book, easily the best I’ve listened to all year. Plenty of amazing insights into human behaviour. I’m already planning to listen to it again.

Spectacular

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Great book, the data is astounding would like more info on the methods he used to access the Google data

The data is astounding

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Interesting and helpful for anyone thinking what is big data , what are it's benefits and where do we get it from ....Above all , are they reliable?

Interesting insights and endless possibilities .

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Seth does a fantastic job of surfacing incredible stories hidden in data. With data sources increasing daily, along with sophisticated methods of retrieving it, it’s exciting to think about what’s possible in the future. I really hope there is a part 2. No rush though - enjoy that well earned beer first!

Amazing insights into the world of data

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