Everybody Lies

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 an 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 , 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 affect 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 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. Best Read Everybody Lies [ by ] Seth Stephens-Davidowitz [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr people s search for information is, in itself, information When and where they search for facts, quotes, jokes, places, persons, things, or help, it turns out, can tell us a lotabout what they really think, really desire, really fear, and really do than anyone might have guessed This is especially true since people sometimes don t so much query Google as confide in it I hate my boss I am drunk My dad hit me There s lies, damned lies and then there are statistics One must won people s search for information is, in itself, information When and where they search for facts, quotes, jokes, places, persons, things, or help, it turns out, can tell us a lotabout what they really think, really desire, really fear, and really do than anyone might have guessed This is especially true since people sometimes don t so much query Google as confide in it I hate my boss I am drunk My dad hit me There s lies, damned lies and then there are statistics One must wonder Do the lies get bigger as the datasets grow Seth Stephens Davidowitz posits that the availability of vast sums of new data not only allows researchers to make better predictions, but offers them never before available tools that can offer insight that direct questioning never could We have seen steps up of this type before Malcolm Gladwell has made a career of such, with Blink, Outliers, an...This book tries too hard to be Freakonomics The first two parts are full of random examples of interesting but mostly pointless things that can learned via Google search trends However, a whole lot of assumptions are made off these bits of data that don t seem to have much basis in factual scientific methods of research Unprofessional jokes are thrown in randomly If you need a footnote to explain why a joke was not homophobic maybe you should have just skipped the joke And any book of less This book tries too hard to be Freakonomics The first two parts are full of random examples of interesting but mostly pointless things that can learned via Google search trends However, a whole lot of assumptions are made off these bits of data that don t seem to have much basis in factual scient...When sociologist ask people if they waste food, people give the only correct answer It s wrong to waste food When sociologist survey the contents of the same people s garbage, they get aaccurate answer.Just imagine how muchinformation is available trolling through internet searches.This is an engaging book about how big data can be used to improve our understanding of human behavior, thinking, emotions, and preference The basic idea is that if you ask people about their behavior or their preferences in surveys, even anonymous surveys, they will often lie People do not like to admit to low brow preferences racists do not want to admit to their prejudices, most people who watch pornography do not want to admit to it, and even voting is often misrepresented some people wh This is an engaging book ...Maybe everyone does lie But they don t lie all the time Stephens Davidowitz makes the good point that asking people directly doesn t always, in fact may not often, yield true answers People have their own reasons for answering pollsters untruthfully, but it is clear that this is a documented fact People sometimes lie to pollsters.Stephens Davidowitz was told by mentors and advisors not to consider Google searches worthwhile data, but thehe looked at it, thehe was convinced that G Maybe everyone does lie But they don t lie all the time Stephens Davidowitz makes the good point that asking people directly doesn t always, in fact may not often, yield true answers People have their own reasons for answering pollsters untruthfully, but it is clear that this is a documented fact People sometimes lie to pollsters.Stephens Davidowitz was told by mentors and advisors not to consider Google searches worthwhile data, but thehe looked at it, thehe was convinced that Google searches contained the best data for determining what people are concerned about He has uncovered some interesting trends that are not apparent through direct questioning because people are sometimes ashamed of their fears, feelings, prejudices, and predilections I didn t really like this book Partly the reason is because I listened to it, and ...I have nothing unique to add to the conversation about this book I think those most in need of reading it won t, and that s frustrating.If you ve ever seen a number adduced to explain a trend, read this book If you ve ever asserted that a certain percentage of s...Acertei em cheio nessa leitura Seth Stephens Davidowitz apresenta uma an lise de como as pessoas se comportam, na mesma linha do The Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail But Some Don t e do Dataclisma Quem somos quando achamos que ningu m est vendo Mas enquanto Signal and the Noise fala de tend ncias de dados e Dataclisma fala do comportamento das pessoas dentro do OkCupid , Everybody Lies fala de como as pessoas se comportam em geral.O autor usa uma s rie de dados de forma b Acertei em cheio nessa leitura Seth Stephens Davidowitz apresenta uma an lise de como as pessoas se comportam, na mesma linha do The Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail But Some Don t e do Dataclisma Quem somos quando achamos que ningu m est vendo Mas enquanto Signal and the Noise fala de tend ncias de dados e Dataclisma fala do comportamento das pessoas dentro do OkCupid , Everybody Lies fala de como as pessoas se comportam em geral.O autor usa uma s rie de dados de forma bastante inovadora, como tend ncias...I wish I could give this bookthan five stars Anyone who has a sneaking feeling that Americans aren t who they SAY they are will find confirmation here It s also easy to read, no academic language here.I was already riveted by the introduction His premise is that we all lie to each other, pollsters, and ourselves, but not to that white box where you type internet searches Both before and after the election everyone went nuts trying to figure out why Trump was doing so much better than p I wish I could give this bookthan five stars Anyone who has a sneaking feeling that Americans aren t who they SAY they are will find confirmation here It s also easy to read, no academic language here.I was already riveted by the introduction His premise is that we all lie to each other, pollsters, and ourselves, but not to that white box where you type internet searches Both before and after the election everyone went nuts trying to figure out why Trump was doing so much better than polls would indicate, looking for factors that would explain it There was only one Nate Silver found that the single factor that best correlated with Donald Trump s support in the Republican primaries was that measure I had discovered four years earlier Areas that supported Trump in the largest numbers were t...A pretty short book with some interesting remarks, but not yet charming enough for me The author definitely has his quirky and funny moments, when he presents himself, his family, and especially his viewsYet the books ideas and findings aren t exactly ground breaking The types of questions like this have been posed in Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything The usefullness of big data has been discussed by ones such as Dataclysm Who We Are discussion o A pretty short book with some interesting remarks, but not yet charming enough for me The author definitely has his quirky and funny moments, when he presents himself, his family, and especially his viewsYet the books ideas and findings aren t exactly ground breaking The types of questions like this have been posed in Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything The usefullness of big data has been discussed by ones such as Dataclysm Who We Are discussi...I sought out the book after reading an interview with the author, and it was totally worth it The book is quite enlightening, and to be honest, deeply frightening Internet data can work miracles for the benefit of huma...

• English
• 14 June 2018
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Hardcover
• 338 pages
• 0062390856
• Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Everybody Lies