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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveal about ourselves and our world - provided we ask the right questions.
By the end of an average day in the early 21st 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 20 years ago seemed unfathomable.
Everybody Lies 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?
Investigating 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 every day, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.
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- J Wolf
- 2023-12-27
Really good.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-06-16
Best ending!
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- Vincent
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Love it but should be a bit more concise
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- James
- 2018-10-10
Packed with interesting revelations and insights..
Enjoyed this primer on the real value in the mass of tracking data being held by some of the largest internet companies. Certainly makes me feel better about using these "free" services as the companies truely get a wealth of information from our participation.
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- JohnS
- 2020-02-20
Data, data, data
This book presents lots of information culled from a lot of data. Some of it new to me, but most confirming what I already suspected or knew. Nevertheless, a very good listen.
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- Mary Briskin
- 2018-01-04
Fun and inspiring :)
Lots of interesting information presented in an easy to follow and fun way. Makes me want to be a data scientist.
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Very insightful and interesting
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- NICOLE JOHNSON
- 2018-10-27
Really Enjoyable and Informative
I found this really interesting. That being said I’m a bit of a geek who thinks a lot about process improvements and change. It was really insightful with a little humour thrown in to keep it from being too dry.
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- Stacy Richter
- 2022-01-20
Totally worth the effort.
What this book is NOT:
- boring & dry diatribe about big data for stats nerds.
- a feeble attempt to validate a publishing contract with a purposeless research project.
What this book IS:
- a useful manual of human insights backed by quality research.
- the business person's building block to grow a business based on human behavior and not opinions.
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