“But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere—and can use it to understand how our world works.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“I am now convinced that Google searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. This” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“DIGITAL TRUTH DIGITAL LIES • Searches • Social media posts • Views • Social media likes • Clicks • Dating profiles • Swipes” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Allowing us to zoom in on small subsets of people is the third power of Big Data.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“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 the Atlantic.… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes new data reveals cultural differences I had never even contemplated. One example: the very different ways that men around the world respond to… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs only once,… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“... I was shock aplenty by what the internet reveals about human sexuality...” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“And it is certainly possible that lying played a role in the failure of the polls to predict Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. Polls, on… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“... I was shocked aplenty by what the internet reveals about human sexuality...” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Newspaper readership, on average, tilts a bit left. (They have data on that.) And newspapers, on average, tilt a bit left to give their… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Why is the presence of rich people such a powerful predictor of poor people’s life expectancy? One” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
