'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind … Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker
'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' Economist
Everybody 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.
Author(s): Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth
Edition: UK Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2019
Language: English
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Pages: 352
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Steven Pinker
Introduction: The Outlines of a Revolution
PART I: DATA, BIG AND SMALL
1. Your Faulty Gut
PART II: THE POWERS OF BIG DATA
2. Was Freud Right?
3. Data Reimagined
Bodies as Data
Words as Data
Pictures as Data
4. Digital Truth Serum
The Truth About Sex
The Truth About Hate and Prejudice
The Truth About the Internet
The Truth About Child Abuse and Abortion
The Truth About Your Facebook Friends
The Truth About Your Customers
Can We Handle the Truth?
5. Zooming In
What’s Really Going On in Our Counties, Cities, and Towns?
How We Fill Our Minutes and Hours
Our Doppelgangers
Data Stories
6. All the World’s a Lab
The ABCs of A/B Testing
Nature’s Cruel—but Enlightening—Experiments
PART III: BIG DATA: HANDLE WITH CARE
7. Big Data, Big Schmata? What It Cannot Do
The Curse of Dimensionality
The Overemphasis on What Is Measurable
8. Mo Data, Mo Problems? What We Shouldn’t Do
The Danger of Empowered Corporations
The Danger of Empowered Governments
Conclusion: How Many People Finish Books?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
