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Everybody Lies

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

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Everybody Lies

Auteur(s): Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
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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 reveal about ourselves and our world - provided we ask the right questions.

By the end of an average day in the early 21st 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 20 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 every day, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.

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©2017 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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I found this book interesting, entertaining and funny, just a wee bit wordy in places but worth reading. It gets you thinking about some new things!

Really good.

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Freakonomics meets big data. This book is a really thoughtful analysis of how to use data to understand our world and all of the people and decision makers in it. So many practical and just genuinely fun facts baked into this book! Perfect for anyone looking for a fun read that they might actually learn something from. #Audible1

Insanely Enjoyable

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Great book! Would occasionally catch myself shouting at it about a sampling bias or about some other cringe-point noticeable only to the (allegedly) "overly" detail-oriented creatures of the world. But insightful, and enjoyable. Conclusion made me LMAO. haha!

Best ending!

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Love the audiobook (I'm not lying!). Very interesting subject. However it could be a little shorter as some part tends to be repetitive.

I would definitely read/listen another book from this author.

Love it but should be a bit more concise

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Enjoyed this primer on the real value in the mass of tracking data being held by some of the largest internet companies. Certainly makes me feel better about using these "free" services as the companies truely get a wealth of information from our participation.

Packed with interesting revelations and insights..

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This book presents lots of information culled from a lot of data. Some of it new to me, but most confirming what I already suspected or knew. Nevertheless, a very good listen.

Data, data, data

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Lots of interesting information presented in an easy to follow and fun way. Makes me want to be a data scientist.

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I think I'm now going to use George on Seinfeld's method of success....ignore my instincts and do the opposite.

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I found this really interesting. That being said I’m a bit of a geek who thinks a lot about process improvements and change. It was really insightful with a little humour thrown in to keep it from being too dry.

Really Enjoyable and Informative

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What this book is NOT:
- boring & dry diatribe about big data for stats nerds.
- a feeble attempt to validate a publishing contract with a purposeless research project.

What this book IS:
- a useful manual of human insights backed by quality research.
- the business person's building block to grow a business based on human behavior and not opinions.

Totally worth the effort.

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