Everybody Lies
Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
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.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
Reviews
“A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche”
Economist
“This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind … Endlessly fascinating”
Steven Pinker
“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.”
Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University
