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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

998 Ratings

4.3

Duration
7H 39min
Language
English
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Category

Economy & Business

Foreword by Steven Pinker

Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.

By the end of on average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information—unprecedented in history—can tell us a great deal about who we are—the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable.

Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who’s more self-conscious about sex, men or women?

Investigating these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which all the world is indeed a lab. With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of this digital truth serum and its deeper potential—revealing biases deeply embedded within us, 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. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.

© 2017 HarperAudio (Audiobook): 9780062563538

Release date

Audiobook: 9 May 2017

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  • Ritz

    24 Oct 2024

    Thought-provoking
    Inspiring

    This book has been a eye opener. Anyone interested in big data should go through this book.

  • VR

    14 Jul 2023

    Informative

    Nice bookDefinitely worth a read

  • Arun

    4 Jul 2023

    Informative
    Inspiring
    Mind-blowing

    Wow is the simplest way to define this book. It’s loaded with stories of how data can be used to prove many beliefs that are wrong. In other words what people say to what they do is clearly brought out. It covers various aspects of life, business, personal traits etc. a great book for technologists and data freaks. But certainly for someone who wants to discover how the mind thinks!

  • Gurudatt

    29 Jun 2022

    Informative
    Mind-blowing

    Data is the backbone of decision making and pattern recognition - an important take away from the book that contradicts natural assumptions and just substantiates unnatural outcomes. A must read for someone trying to find meaning in chaos.

  • Abhishek

    30 Oct 2021

    Informative
    Page-turner
    Unpredictable

    Great book on big data.

  • S

    10 Jul 2020

    Informative
    Thought-provoking
    Smart
    Inspiring
    Mind-blowing
    Page-turner
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    The first ever book I have read about Big Data. It was such an eye opener with so much insight into numerous arenas of life/human behaviour. I would DEFINITELY RECOMMEND it to fellow readers. This book here can not be missed.