THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' EconomistEverybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess the truth.Insightful, funny and always surprising, Everybody Lies explores how this huge collection of data, unprecedented in human history, could just be the most important ever collected. It offers astonishing insights into the human psyche, revealing the biases deeply embedded within us, the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our well-being, and the information we can use to change our culture for the better.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Seth Stephens-DavidowitzEAN: 9781408894736COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 290 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCDATE PUBLISHED: 2018-04-19CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Statistics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / GeneralWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Political, socio-economic, cultural and strategic groupings, Biography and non-fiction prose, Sociology, Economics
Time and again my preconceptions about my country and my species were turned upside-down by Stephens-Davidowitz's discoveries, Absorbing and impassioned ... as an introduction to our fascinating new universe of data, Everybody Lies is hard to beat, Everybody Lies is an astoundingly clever and mischievous exploration of what big data tells us about everyday life. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met, Move over Freakonomics. Move over Moneyball. This brilliant book is the best demonstration yet of how big data plus cleverness can illuminate and then move the world. Read it and you'll see life in a new way, A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche … The empirical findings in Everybody Lies are so intriguing that the book would be a page-turner even if it were structured as a mere laundry list
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a PhD in economics from Harvard. His research – which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviours and attitudes – has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.sethsd.com / @SethSD
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' EconomistEverybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess the truth.Insightful, funny and always surprising, Everybody Lies explores how this huge collection of data, unprecedented in human history, could just be the most important ever collected. It offers astonishing insights into the human psyche, revealing the biases deeply embedded within us, the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our well-being, and the information we can use to change our culture for the better.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Seth Stephens-DavidowitzEAN: 9781408894736COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 290 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCDATE PUBLISHED: 2018-04-19CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Statistics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / GeneralWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Political, socio-economic, cultural and strategic groupings, Biography and non-fiction prose, Sociology, Economics
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a PhD in economics from Harvard. His research – which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviours and attitudes – has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.sethsd.com / @SethSD
