A review by tampa_shawn
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

1.0

When my nephew was 3 years old he found the word "poop" endlessly funny. Him and his friends would say "poop" to each other and burst out laughing. While I found hearing "poop" and giggles from a 3 years old cute, reading the same thing from an 'adult' was painful.

On top of the constant immature subjects, the book is also littered with snide comments. The author has a definite political agenda that should also not be brought in to 'scientific research' (or in this case pseudoscience since the way the data is presented and analyzed is not done or presented in a way that comes close to meeting the basics of scientific research).

The book is also very repetitive.

I really expected more from a book by someone who purports to have a research background and should know how to properly present data correctly, ethically, and in a professional way. Maybe after the author grows up his work will be worth reading, however at the moment it is not.

To me this book was basically poop, poop, poop.