Podcast
Freakonomics Radio
It explored how Google searches reveal people's true selves and desires, contradicting what they say in surveys, and provided many examples of these behaviours, including searches related to sex, racism, and anxiety.
The book you've written is called Everybody Lies. Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are.
— Episode: 286. How Big is My Penis? (And Other Thi...
Episode: 286. How Big is My Penis? (And Other Things We Ask...
It explored how Google searches reveal people's true selves and desires, contradicting what they say in surveys, and provided many examples of these behaviours, including searches related to sex, racism, and anxiety.
The book you've written is called Everybody Lies. Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are.
The title that I wanted for my book was How Big Is My Penis? What Google Searches Reveal About Human Nature.
So it's not all Google data. I use data from anonymous and aggregate data from a porn hub. I scraped some websites. So I scraped a hate site, Stormfront. I scraped Wikipedia. I use some Facebook advertising data and some other sources.
You write in the book, the microscope showed us there is more to a drop of pond water than we think we see. The telescope showed us there's more to the night sky than we think we see. And new digital data now show us there's more to human society than we think we see.
Stevens-Davidowitz's book is stuffed with examples of the behaviors that, according to him, everybody lies about, especially on traditional surveys.