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EVERYBODY LIES
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER |
| By: |
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz |
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Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408894718 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408894712 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
13 July, 2017 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Synopsis: |
Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven PinkerEverybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets - about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist and former Google data scientist, shows that this could just be the most important dataset ever collected. This huge database of secrets - unprecedented in human history - offers astonishing, even revolutionary, insights into humankind. Anxiety, for instance, does not increase after a terrorist attack. Crime levels drop when a violent film is released. And racist searches are no higher in Republican areas than in Democrat ones. Stephens-Davidowitz reveals information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our health - both emotional and physical. Insightful, funny, and always surprising, Everybody Lies exposes the biases and secrets embedded deeply within us, at a time when things are harder to predict than ever. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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Returnable |
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