Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Stephens-Davidowitz was born on September 15, 1982, in Englewood, New Jersey son of Esther Davidowitz and Mitchell Stephens. He grew up in Alpine, New Jersey, and attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, graduating in 1999. He went on to earn his B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University before enrolling at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in economics in 2013. ==Everybody Lies==

Everybody Lies was published by HarperCollins in 2017. The book has received several reviews and other coverage, was a New York Times bestseller, and was named a book of the year by both PBS NewsHour and the Economist. The overriding theme of the book is that people aren't as honest about their true natures when responding to standard questionnaires as they are when searching the internet, on the assumption that search is a private activity. Of particular note is the empirical chapter, Chapter 4: Digital Truth Serum, derived from extensive Big Data analysis of search engine search histories (primarily Google's) on sensitive subject matters such as prejudice, violence, and sexuality. The remainder of the book addresses the surrounding issues of methodology, epistemology, and moral philosophy. In 2022, Stephens-Davidowitz published another book, ''Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life''. ==References==