Everybody Lies

Höfundur: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Útgáfa: 1)
Everybody Lies

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA 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' EconomistEverybody 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.

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Útgefandi
Bloomsbury UK
ISBN
9781408894699
Print ISBN
9781408894712
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2017-05-29
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
10

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Praise
  • Title Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: The Outlines of a Revolution
  • Part I: Data, Big and Small
  • 1. Your Faulty Gut
  • Part II: The Powers of Big Data
  • 2. Was Freud Right?
  • 3. Data Reimagined
  • Bodies as Data
  • Words as Data
  • Pictures as Data
  • 4. Digital Truth Serum
  • The Truth About Sex
  • The Truth About Hate and Prejudice
  • The Truth About the Internet
  • The Truth About Child Abuse and Abortion
  • The Truth About Your Facebook Friends
  • The Truth About Your Customers
  • Can We Handle the Truth?
  • 5. Zooming In
  • What’s Really Going On in Our Counties, Cities, and Towns?
  • How We Fill Our Minutes and Hours
  • Our Doppelgangers
  • Data Stories
  • 6. All the World’s a Lab
  • The ABCs of A/B Testing
  • Nature’s Cruel—but Enlightening—Experiments
  • Part III: Big Data: Handle with Care
  • 7. Big Data, Big Schmata? What It Cannot Do
  • The Curse of Dimensionality
  • The Overemphasis on What Is Measurable
  • 8. Mo Data, Mo Problems? What We Shouldn’t Do
  • The Danger of Empowered Corporations
  • The Danger of Empowered Governments
  • Conclusion: How Many People Finish Books?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A Note on the Author
  • eCopyright