EAN: 9780062390851

EVERYBODY LIES - SETH STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ GEBUNDEN

How much sex are people really having? How many Americans are actually racist? Is America
experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market? Does violent
entertainment increase the rate of violent crime? Do parents treat sons differently from
daughters? How many people actually read the books they buy? In this groundbreaking work  Seth
Stephens-Davidowitz  a Harvard-trained economist  former Google data scientist  and New York
Times writer  argues that much of what we thought about people has been dead wrong. The reason?
People lie  to friends  lovers  doctors  surveys?and themselves. However  we no longer need to
rely on what people tell us. New data from the internet?the traces of information that billions
of people leave on Google  social media  dating  and even pornography sites?finally reveals the
truth. By analyzing this digital goldmine  we can now learn what people really think  what they
really want  and what they really do. Sometimes the new data will make you laugh out loud.
Sometimes the new data will shock you. Sometimes the new data will deeply disturb you. But 
always  this new data will make you think. Everybody Lies combines the informed analysis of
Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise  the storytelling of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers  and
the wit and fun of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics in a book that will change
the way you view the world. There is almost no limit to what can be learned about human nature
from Big Data?provided  that is  you ask the right questions.

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