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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 Thought-Provoking Inspiring Mental Health

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If you enjoy big data, little data and weird data then this book is for you. The story was a bit weird and it's definitely not an easy read or listen for most but the narrator is energetic and adds style to what might otherwise be boring statistics.

For data lovers.

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Inspired me to learn the techniques outlined in the book. great book with insights on how to lock who we really are

cant wait for book number 2

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Enjoyed this book a lot, and will definitely look for the sequel. lots of surprising facts, and a good introduction to some of the ideas behind data science.

entertaining and informative

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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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Fascinating insights into how we behave when we think no one is watching . Book shows the insights we can get from anonymised big data and covers everything from politics to porn. A surprisingly accessible and engaging account

Fascinating insight into the scope and reach of big data

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A fairly easy listen that stimulates one to consider in more depth the use of data collection and people's social media habits.

I felt however it lacked a little depth overall and although there were a few insightful comments I finished feeling as if there was more to this topic than this book had to give. A good intro though.

Interesting Intro

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loved the book, provided great insight regarding the power of big data analytics! great read

for future data scientists

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I really liked the book, it makes relevant and intersting points about this new emerging field of internet data analysis. Also the narrator is great.

Good book

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The book is occasionally interesting but the author is still frustrsting high on the hype of big data. It'd be nice to see the subject treated with a little more humility.

Ok

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Some interesting information near the beginning of the book, falls off towards the end. 3/5

Not bad but not great

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