Time and again my preconceptions about my country and my species were turned upside-down by Stephens-Davidowitz's discoveries

Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature

Absorbing and impassioned ... as an introduction to our fascinating new universe of data, Everybody Lies is hard to beat

Financial Times

Everybody Lies is an astoundingly clever and mischievous exploration of what big data tells us about everyday life. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met

Steven Levitt, co-author, Freakonomics

Move over Freakonomics. Move over Moneyball. This brilliant book is the best demonstration yet of how big data plus cleverness can illuminate and then move the world. Read it and you'll see life in a new way

Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University

A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche … The empirical findings in Everybody Lies are so intriguing that the book would be a page-turner even if it were structured as a mere laundry list

Economist

Everybody Lies relies on big data to rip the veneer of what we like to think of as our civilized selves. A book that is fascinating, shocking, sometimes horrifying, but above all, revealing

Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants