Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Many people underreport embarrassing behaviors and thoughts on surveys. They want to look good, even though most surveys are anonymous. This is…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“First, and perhaps most important, if you are going to try to use new data to revolutionize a field, it is best…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“One potential reason students struggle so much is that teachers don’t show up consistently. On a given day in some schools in…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“DIGITAL TRUTH DIGITAL LIES • Searches • Social media posts • Views • Social media likes • Clicks • Dating profiles • Swipes”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“In his excellent book Irresistible, Adam Alter writes about the rise of behavioral addictions in contemporary society.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“As with Google, so with everyone else trying to use data to understand the world. The Big Data revolution is less about…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The first three—religion, environment, and health insurance—do not correlate with longer life spans for the poor. The variable that does matter, according”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Between the key ages of fourteen and twenty-four, numerous Americans will form their views based on the popularity of the current president.…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“There was, however, no increased interest in Stormfront during Donald Trump’s candidacy and only a small rise immediately after he won. Trump…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Facebook is digital brag-to-my-friends-about-how-good-my-life-is serum. In Facebook world, the average adult seems to be happily married, vacationing in the Caribbean, and perusing…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Clark Benson is the CEO of ranker.com, a news and entertainment site that relies heavily on A/B testing to choose headlines and…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“there was another variable that was a strong predictor of a person’s securing an entry in Wikipedia: the proportion of immigrants in…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Silver found that the single factor that best correlated with Donald Trump’s support in the Republican primaries was that measure I had…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“In the days following the San Bernardino attack, for every American concerned with “Islamophobia,” another was searching for “kill Muslims.” While hate…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“So what should we do with this information? One simple, fairly uncontroversial idea: we can utilize the area-level data to allocate resources.…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The success of college towns and big cities is striking when you just look at the data. But I also delved more…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Silver noticed that the areas where Trump performed best made for an odd map. Trump performed well in parts of the Northeast…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“But those right above or right below the sharp numerical threshold had virtually identical criminal histories and backgrounds. This one measly point,…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Frankly, the overwhelming majority of academics have ignored the data explosion caused by the digital age. The world’s most famous sex researchers…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Walmart uses data from sales in all their stores to know what products to shelve. Before Hurricane Frances, a destructive storm that…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Netflix learned a similar lesson early on in its life cycle: don’t trust what people tell you; trust what they do.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz