Everybody Lies

Everybody Lies

2017 • 352 pages

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Average rating3.8

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The upshot of this book is not that big data is the holy grail. Rather, the recurring theme in all of Stephens-Davidowitz's interesting examples is just that most self-reporting is awful.

I'm still skeptical about the big data revolution–and this book doesn't really focus on implicit bias in analysis of large data sets–but the conventional research methods of social sciences are amusingly torn to pieces (much like advertising ROI was absolutely shredded in the digital age where measurement was no longer entirely by gut).

November 18, 2017Report this review