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Everybody Lies
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-09-18
For data lovers.
If you enjoy big data, little data and weird data then this book is for you. The story was a bit weird and it's definitely not an easy read or listen for most but the narrator is energetic and adds style to what might otherwise be boring statistics.
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- SAB
- 08-04-19
cant wait for book number 2
Inspired me to learn the techniques outlined in the book. great book with insights on how to lock who we really are
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-07-21
entertaining and informative
Enjoyed this book a lot, and will definitely look for the sequel. lots of surprising facts, and a good introduction to some of the ideas behind data science.
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- Ray Chapman
- 14-04-19
Startling discoveries about us
I enjoyed diving into our secrets. The honesty that big data reveals is startling scary
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- David NI
- 26-06-18
Fascinating insight into the scope and reach of big data
Fascinating insights into how we behave when we think no one is watching . Book shows the insights we can get from anonymised big data and covers everything from politics to porn. A surprisingly accessible and engaging account
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- Gareth
- 28-06-18
Interesting Intro
A fairly easy listen that stimulates one to consider in more depth the use of data collection and people's social media habits.
I felt however it lacked a little depth overall and although there were a few insightful comments I finished feeling as if there was more to this topic than this book had to give. A good intro though.
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- Zainab Yaqub
- 11-06-18
for future data scientists
loved the book, provided great insight regarding the power of big data analytics! great read
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- Anonymous User
- 30-07-21
Good book
I really liked the book, it makes relevant and intersting points about this new emerging field of internet data analysis. Also the narrator is great.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-02-18
Ok
The book is occasionally interesting but the author is still frustrsting high on the hype of big data. It'd be nice to see the subject treated with a little more humility.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-11-19
Not bad but not great
Some interesting information near the beginning of the book, falls off towards the end. 3/5
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