{"product_id":"everybody-lies-big-data-new-data-and-what-the-internet-can-tell-us-about-who-we-really-are-9780062390868","title":"Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Steven Pinker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlending the informed analysis of \u003cem\u003eThe Signal and the Noise\u003c\/em\u003e with the instructive iconoclasm of \u003cem\u003eThink Like a Freak\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEverybody Lies\u003c\/em\u003e offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, 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 effect 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 more self-conscious about sex, men or women? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvestigating 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. \u003cem\u003eEverybody Lies\u003c\/em\u003e challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephens-Davidowitz, Seth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSeth Stephens-Davidowitz is a contributing op-ed writer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/em\u003e a lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA from Stanford and a PhD from Harvard. His research has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Public Economics\u003c\/em\u003e and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717672603922,"sku":"9780062390868","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8e4a479-d453-4f8e-b72b-efeae3a83807.jpg?v=1734623508","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everybody-lies-big-data-new-data-and-what-the-internet-can-tell-us-about-who-we-really-are-9780062390868","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}