THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker 'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' Economist Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess the truth. Insightful, funny and always surprising, Everybody Lies explores how this huge collection of data, unprecedented in human history, could just be the most important ever collected. It offers astonishing insights into the human psyche, revealing the biases deeply embedded within us, the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our well-being, and the information we can use to change our culture for the better.

"Absorbing and impassioned ... as an introduction to our fascinating new universe of data, Everybody Lies is hard to beat" - Financial Times

"A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche … The empirical findings in Everybody Lies are so intriguing that the book would be a page-turner even if it were structured as a mere laundry list" - Economist

"A sobering guide to how much of ourselves we're putting online and what private companies might do with that information" - New Statesman 'Books of the Year'

"Stephens-Davidowitz, a former data scientist at Google, has spent the last four years poring over Internet search data . . . What he found is that Internet search data might be the Holy Grail when it comes to understanding the true nature of humanity" - New York Post

"Stephens-Davidowitz censures academics and other researchers for ignoring the largest data set ever collected, and he is probably not overstating it when he claims that the continuing study of these searches “will radically expand our understanding of mankind”. This undemanding book is a useful first step towards that knowledge’" - Sunday Times

"Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in his book “Everybody Lies,” tackles the discrepancy between the ideal version of ourselves we present to the world via social media and the confessions that we would never post there" - International New York Times