Everybody Lies: Brooklynite’s new book confirms old suspicion
Brooklyn BookBeat
In a world where endless information is available at the touch of a screen, much of what we think we know about people is dead wrong. The reason is simple — we all lie, not only to each other but to doctors, surveys and most importantly, ourselves.
Brooklynite Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a Harvard-trained economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times writer, argues that we no longer need to rely on what people actually tell us. New data from our online lives finally reveals the truth.
By the end of an average day, human beings searching the internet amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. When viewed the right way, these traces of digital information point to our deepest desires, hopes, prejudices and fears.