Everybody Lies
Pocketböcker. Bloomsbury. 2018. 352 sidor.
Everybody 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.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781408894736
- Titel
- Everybody Lies
- Författare
- Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth
- Förlag
- Bloomsbury
- Utgivningsår
- 2018
- Omfång
- 352 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 23 mm
- Vikt
- 290 g
- Språk
- English