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A review by mundinova
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
4.0
Entertaining, but didn't change my mind regarding social sciences as soft sciences.
For social sciences to have the same respect as physics, biology, and mathematics, their conclusions must be repeatable. If anything, Everybody Lies shows that many of the conclusions are only correlated for that moment in time. Ten years from now, those conclusions won't be relevant. Just like much of [b:Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything|1202|Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything|Steven D. Levitt|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1550917827s/1202.jpg|5397] has aged out of favor, most of Stephens-Davidowitz's conclusions using google data will follow suit.
So why the 4 stars? I was thoroughly entertained! How could I not be when there's a book about using PornHub data?
For social sciences to have the same respect as physics, biology, and mathematics, their conclusions must be repeatable. If anything, Everybody Lies shows that many of the conclusions are only correlated for that moment in time. Ten years from now, those conclusions won't be relevant. Just like much of [b:Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything|1202|Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything|Steven D. Levitt|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1550917827s/1202.jpg|5397] has aged out of favor, most of Stephens-Davidowitz's conclusions using google data will follow suit.
So why the 4 stars? I was thoroughly entertained! How could I not be when there's a book about using PornHub data?