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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Steven Pinker, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.82 AVERAGE
665 reviews for:
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Steven Pinker, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.82 AVERAGE
Read this. Oh wow, seriously read this. Read it all the way to the end like I did (a joke you will understand if you do read it all the way to the end like I did).
When this book is described as the new Freakonomics, it isn't wrong. I laughed (out loud on the train even!), I gasped, I 'wow!'ed and I already want to read the tentatively hinted at sequel.
With insights into the human condition that have never been examined before, Everybody Lies may make you sad in parts; but will definitely and in much greater measure make you feel so relieved that other people are indeed thinking; and Googling, the same things as you. It will also reveal that people are thinking, and Googling, some other really next level weird shit.
This is some of the best money I've ever spent, it's educational, provocative, philosophical and entertaining and I couldn't possibly have loved it any more than I did. Read this. Oh wow, seriously read this.
When this book is described as the new Freakonomics, it isn't wrong. I laughed (out loud on the train even!), I gasped, I 'wow!'ed and I already want to read the tentatively hinted at sequel.
With insights into the human condition that have never been examined before, Everybody Lies may make you sad in parts; but will definitely and in much greater measure make you feel so relieved that other people are indeed thinking; and Googling, the same things as you. It will also reveal that people are thinking, and Googling, some other really next level weird shit.
This is some of the best money I've ever spent, it's educational, provocative, philosophical and entertaining and I couldn't possibly have loved it any more than I did. Read this. Oh wow, seriously read this.
This was interesting but also tough to read in a way I wasn't prepared for (lots of statistics on people Googling racist jokes, porn (all kinds), cases of child abuse and abortion and suicide, etc....)
meh...He says some things I did not find convincing, but it's an interesting read.
The author's thesis is that people tell the Google search bar truthful, shameful things that they would never reveal to another human being in a survey. He analyzes Google searches and other sources of big data to come up with interesting, often lurid insights about people's hidden nature. I found it fascinating.
funny
informative
inspiring
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medium-paced
Interesting tidbits sprinkled throughout. Thesis is obvious. Good quick easy read. In the vein of Gladwell and Freakonomics.
Skims the surface of a very big idea without delving too far into the "how" or the "what's next". Some connections seemed a little too simple, so I'm very curious about what experts in the various fields he touched on would do with the data he's assembled (linguistics, education, communications). As it is, this book serves as an academic sampler, with teasers of what could be coming.
I really enjoyed this book and can definitely see using it in one of my classes. It hits on so many topics regarding data analysis that I talk about in classes like Behavioral Statistics and Research Methods. Definitely recommend this one, especially to anyone interested in science and data.
Seth is exploring a brave new world of honests dataset and his favorite being Google searches he come sto quite a few surprising conclusions. Inspired by Freakonomics, and bringing it to next level.
Great book! Recommend to EVERYONE. Disheartening at times, but honestly, I expected the data to show things worse off.