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Everybody Lies

By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
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Summary

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

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Sometimes its hard tu visualize and the numbers

Some moments was very interesting and in some I just lost the line. Will be better to read, not to listen as its easier to see the stats ant think a bit about them

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Has some value but totally American

Though this book certainly has some merit in it's analysis of Big Data it is written by an American for Americans. All the references and examples are to American people and American institutions. I don't recall a single mention of Europe or the wider world. Thus, after the first few quite interesting chapters I found it hard going.

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interesting in parts

there's some interesting insights buried in this book, but it's a little slow in parts and lacks something, though I can't quite say what.
I found the concluding chapter is protracted and unnecessary

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Worth listening all the way to the end

Which is more than I managed with Daniel Kahneman’s thinking fast and slow I’m embarrassed to admit.

Full of fascinating facts about human nature backed with data.

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a frightening insight into internet data usage

this is a great book , it reveals very mixed messages as to what we say and think in private or search for on the internet.

a very clever use of data but it could easily be very worrying in the hands of governments or business's .

it should be compulsory reading for young people who put their whole lives out there

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Found myself zoning out

it was ok. Got about 75% of the way through before I gave up as life if too short to waste on books that you zone out of. Good stories but not presented very well and lots of figures. Some people would probably love that.

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came for the info, stayed for the ending.

Purchased this book because it was in the sale and as I'd been enjoying the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, i thought "why not take a risk on some new knowledge?". Absolutely thrilled that I did, was written so well and gripped my interest the entire time! I was concerned that the fact it was about data analysis would make it difficult to understand and I might not finish it but it was so accessible, so relatable and so human! Highly recommend this book.

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Honest Book Title: Data Reveals Things.

Not at all what it says on the cover. Only 1 or 2 chapters (out of 11) are about what search reveals about people. The rest is generic data analysis. Not bad per se, but not what it says on the cover.

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Super interesting but doesn’t feel like it goes anywhere.

It’s a really cool and genuinely fascinating collection of stories about the power of big data. Some super interesting insights and little bubbles of how big data can inform and teach us.

My only issue was that it always felt like it was bubbling up to a conclusion that I don’t feel came. I guess the point was that we’re only at the beginning of what big data can do for us but that felt a bit unsatisfying to me.

Worth a listen if you’re into interesting and counterintuitive stats and studies though. Also provides a decent overview of data science which best practices and rules, found that super interesting.

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Paradigm shifting book!

As a scientist I love the methodical and scientifically sound studies that can finally be made in the social sciences due to the vast amounts of data that we are creating in the modern world.

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