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Your host to the evening is a really funny dude.

I forgot his last name, but I've seen him before and he's really funny.

Give it up for Mike. funny. 13th floor of a commercial high rise in beautiful Beverly Hills adjacent California from the studios of Sirius XM West

Boasting an obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood sign.

This is the Tully show.

I am your host, Mike Tully, joining me on the phone today.

A Harvard-trained economist, a former Google Data Scientist, a New York Times contributor,

and most important for the purposes of our conversation, the author of the new book, Everybody Lies,

Big Data, New Data data and what the internet can tell us about who we really are.

Nice to meet you.

Thanks for making some time Seth Stevens, Davidowitz.

Thanks much for having me.

So this book is right up my alley,

and it's a book that I didn't realize was the book I was waiting for until it presented itself

Oh, thanks.

Because it gets at the core of, I think we as a nation are actually trying like struggling to

understand ourselves. Yeah so the basic idea of the book is that you can't really trust necessarily what people tell you because they like to make themselves look good.

But there are certain sources where they tend to be very honest things like Google

searches which serves as kind of digital truth theorem and people confess things to

Google that they might not tell to anybody else and we can really use this data to learn who we really are.

I have a couple of big picture questions about the nature of data and data collection and the use of data and I'm

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