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Blending the knowledgeable evaluation of The Indication and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Just like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty take a look at what the huge amounts of information now instantly available to us reveal about ourselves and the world - provided we ask the right questions. By the finish of an average day in the first 21st century, human beings searching the web will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information - unprecedented in history - can reveal a great deal about who we could - the doubts, desires, and behaviors that drive us and the mindful and unconscious decisions we make. Through the profound to the mundane, we can gain amazing understanding of the human being psyche that less than 20 years ago seemed unfathomable. Everybody Lies offers amazing, astonishing, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports activities to race to sex, gender, and even more, all drawn from the world of big data. What ratio of white voters didn't vote for Barack Obama because he's black? Will where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favour guy children over women? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Is it possible to beat the stock market? How regularly do we rest about our sex lives, and who's more self-conscious about sex, men or women? Looking into these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Attracting on studies and tests about how we really live and think, he shows in fascinating and often funny ways the amount to which all the world is definitely a laboratory. With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to troubling, he explores the power of this digital real truth serum and its own deeper potential - uncovering biases deeply inserted within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we're fearful to ask that could be essential to our health and wellness - both mental and physical. All of us are handled by big data every day, and its own influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to believe differently about how we see it and the world.
