Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

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By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

People lie to surveys, to friends and to themselves, and they tell the truth to a search box. A former Google data scientist works through what internet search data reveals about what people actually think.

He covers racism and the 2008 and 2016 elections, what parents privately worry about with sons versus daughters, sexuality, anxiety and self-hatred, and argues that the honest data is often unflattering and always more useful than the polite kind.

First published 2017