Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Explained

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Birth Name:Seth Isaac Stephens-Davidowitz
Birth Date:15 September 1982
Birth Place:Englewood, New Jersey
Nationality:American
Fields:Data science
Economics
Workplaces:Google
Education:Stanford University
Harvard University
Thesis Title:Essays Using Google Data
Thesis Url:https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/10984881
Thesis Year:2013
Doctoral Advisor:Alberto Alesina
Known For:Research using Google Trends to study human behavior
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Seth Isaac Stephens-Davidowitz (born September 15, 1982)[1] is an American data scientist, economist, and author. He has worked as a New York Times op-ed contributor, a data scientist at Google,[2] as well as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[3] He has published research using Google Trends search data, as well as data from Wikipedia and Facebook, to gain real-time insights into people's thoughts and beliefs that they may be unwilling to admit publicly.[4] [5] [6]

His first book Everybody Lies was published by HarperCollins in 2017. The book subsequently became a New York Times bestseller, and was named a book of the year by both PBS NewsHour and the Economist.

Biography

Stephens-Davidowitz was born on September 15, 1982, in Englewood, New Jersey[1] into a Jewish family,[7] son of Esther Davidowitz and Mitchell Stephens.[8] He grew up in Alpine, New Jersey, and attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, graduating in 1999.[9] 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.[10] [8]

Everybody Lies

Everybody Lies was published by HarperCollins in 2017. The book has received several reviews and other coverage,[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] was a New York Times bestseller, and was named a book of the year by both PBS NewsHour and the Economist.[21]

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Curriculum Vitae . Harvard University Department of Economics . 5 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120131045716/http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sstephen/cv.pdf . 31 January 2012.
  2. News: Stephens-Davidowitz . Seth . Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets . the Guardian . 9 July 2017 . en.
  3. Web site: Shermer . Michael. Michael Shermer. Web Searches Reveal (in Aggregate) What We're Really Thinking . . 5 February 2019 . 1 June 2018.
  4. Web site: Illing . Sean . Persuasive proof that America is full of racist and selfish people . . 5 February 2019 . 13 June 2017.
  5. Stein . Joel . Joel Stein. That Time an Algorithm Whisperer Took Me to the Heart of Darkness . . 5 February 2019 . en . 15 June 2017.
  6. News: Ell . Kellie . Users don't seem to mind Google has more data than Facebook. . 5 February 2019 . . 24 April 2018.
  7. Web site: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz . What We're Searching For . . 20 December 2014 . 7 March 2019.
  8. Stephens-Davidowitz . Seth . 2013 . Essays Using Google Data . Ph.D. . . viii. 5 February 2019.
  9. News: Palmer . Joanne . Big data is watching you . 5 February 2019 . . 15 February 2018.
  10. Web site: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz . Seth Stephens-Davidowitz . 5 February 2019.
  11. That Time an Algorithm Whisperer Took Me to the Heart of Darkness. 2020-12-08. Time Magazine.
  12. Shaywitz. David. No Lie: Engaging New Book Brings Behavioral Science Into The Era of Big Data. 2020-12-08. Forbes. en.
  13. Hall. Eugene L.. July 2018. Stephens-Davidowitz, S. (2017). Everybody lies: Big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 352 pp., $27.99.. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. en. 44. 3. 556–557. 10.1111/jmft.12325. 51606276 .
  14. News: 2017-08-17. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz review – what internet searches reveal. 2020-12-08. the Guardian. en.
  15. News: Stephens-Davidowitz. Seth. 2017-07-09. Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets. 2020-12-08. the Guardian. en.
  16. Everybody Lies . Kirkus Reviews. en.
  17. Sussman. Lisa. 2019. Everybody lies: Big data, new data and what the internet can tell us about who we really are, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. New York: HarperCollins, 2017, 338 pp.. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. en. 16. 3. 203–205. 10.1002/aps.1612. 197731421 . 1556-9187.
  18. Mouncey. Peter. 2018-05-01. Book review: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody lies: What the Internet can tell us about who we really are. International Journal of Market Research. en. 60. 3. 323–326. 10.1177/1470785318770312. 169287708 . 1470-7853.
  19. Web site: May 10, 2017. Can what you Google reveal your true self?. 2020-12-08. www.cbsnews.com. en.
  20. Web site: Duncan. Anna. "Everybody Lies" by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz – a review – theGIST. 2020-12-08. en-GB.
  21. News: Books of the Year 2017 . The Economist . 2022-06-27 . 0013-0613.

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