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A review by jimbowen0306
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.0
Hmmm... This is an interesting book. It looks at what is generally called "big data" and tries to correlate it to certain outcomes like keywords in Google searches to support for Donald Trump. The argument for using this data is that people are going to be more likely to tell the truth to something that isn't real (their computer), rather than a real life person, especially when it's embarrassing when they are unsure about something.
This issue I had with the book is that it started with a bang, and went down hill from there. The author argued he wanted the book to speak to people like Freakonomics did 10yrs ago, and I can see why he thinks that. Freakonomics, however, was just more interesting. I rather suspect that if he could have chapters that gripped you like that book did then I might have enjoyed the book better. It's just after the first changer or two, it got old fast.
This issue I had with the book is that it started with a bang, and went down hill from there. The author argued he wanted the book to speak to people like Freakonomics did 10yrs ago, and I can see why he thinks that. Freakonomics, however, was just more interesting. I rather suspect that if he could have chapters that gripped you like that book did then I might have enjoyed the book better. It's just after the first changer or two, it got old fast.