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Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, 'Everybody lies' exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches. 0Everybody 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.0This 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. 0Stephens-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
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Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens Davidowitz
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Everybody Lies
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Seth Stephens Davidowitz
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1408894718
- ISBN13
- 9781408894712
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Business, Technology & Engineering, Psychological Topics, Computers & Internet, Science, Technology, Communication, Internet, Big Data
- First published
- 2017
- Original title
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, 'Everybody lies' exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches. 0Everybody 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.0This 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. 0Stephens-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