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

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
@SethS_D

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 reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.

By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first 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 twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable.

Interview with the Author

Book Club with Michael Smerconish 
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: “Everybody Lies”
4/26/23            18 min

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Rationally Speaking 
Rationally Speaking #191 – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on “What the internet can tell us about human nature” (Fixed)
8/20/17            59 min

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Smart People Podcast
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz – What Have You Googled Recently?
6/19/17           63 min

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New Books Network 
Seth Stephens-Davidowtiz, “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” (HarperCollins, 2017)
4/15/21            51 min

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Modern Wisdom 
#134 – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz – How Much Does Google Know About Me?
1/16/20           62 min

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Curious Minds at Work 
CM 091: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Big Data as Truth Serum
11/6/17              31 min
 

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