THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves.
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..
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.
And racist searches are no higher in Republican areas than in Democrat ones.
Crime levels drop when a violent film is released.
Anxiety, for instance, does not increase after a terrorist attack.
This huge database of secrets - unprecedented in human history - offers astonishing, even revolutionary, insights into humankind.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist and former Google data scientist, shows that this could just be the most important dataset ever collected.
In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets - about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves
