Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really AreTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker 'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' Economist Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess the truth. Insightful, funny and always surprising, Everybody Lies explores how this huge collection of data, unprecedented in human history, could just be the most important ever collected. It offers astonishing insights into the human psyche, revealing the biases deeply embedded within us, the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our well-being, and the information we can use to change our culture for the better. |
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User Review - Kavinay - LibraryThingThe upshot of this book is not that big data is the holy grail. Rather, the recurring theme in all of Stephens-Davidowitz's interesting examples is just that most self-reporting is awful. I'm still ... Read full review
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User Review - lpg3d - LibraryThingWhile this book is a somewhat sort and easy read, it is nevertheless an important read. Big data is everywhere now, and many of the details of our lives are now recorded in databases. [b:Everybody ... Read full review
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Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us about who We Really are Seth Stephens-Davidowitz No preview available - 2018 |
Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us about who We Really are Seth Stephens-Davidowitz No preview available - 2017 |
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| Title | Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are |
| Author | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1408894696, 9781408894699 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Econometrics Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / Statistics Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General Political Science / General Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections Social Science / Sociology / General |
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