At the end of a typical day in the early 21st century, eight trillion gigabytes of data are accumulated as people search the Internet. This staggering amount of information—unprecedented in history—can tell us a great deal about who we are—our ...
At the end of a typical day in the early 21st century, eight trillion gigabytes of data are accumulated as people search the Internet. This staggering amount of information—unprecedented in history—can tell us a great deal about who we are—our fears, desires, behaviors, and the decisions we make consciously or unconsciously. From the deep to the superficial, we can gain an amazing knowledge of the human psyche that would have seemed impossible less than twenty years ago.
"Everybody Lies" offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes hilarious insight into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to gender and more, all stemming from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters did not vote for Barack Obama because he is black? Does the school you go to affect your success in life? Do parents secretly prefer boys to girls? Do violent movies affect crime rates? Can you beat the stock market? How often do we lie about our sex lives, and who is more self-conscious about sex? man or woman?
By examining these and many other questions, Seth Stevens Davidovits provides information that can help us better understand ourselves and life. Relying on studies and experiments about how we really live and think, he interestingly and often hilariously shows that the whole world is actually a laboratory. With strange but true, thought-provoking, and disturbing conclusions, he explores the power of this digital reality and its deeper potential - the potential to reveal deep-seated biases within us, the information we can use to change our culture. And the questions we're afraid to ask ourselves, but may be essential to our health—both emotional and physical. We all come in contact with big data every day and its influence is increasing every day. "Everybody's a Liar" challenges us to think differently about the world and how to see it.
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