“Everybody Lies”

I’ll be posting about this book by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in a year or two. It’s an interesting book for its time, May of 2017. It is brutally honest, without reservation for political correctness, but hard to distinguish stated facts and opinions, hard to distinguish statistically qualifiable statements and idle observations(and author tries to mark the lack of rigor, imho, by saying he doesn’t really use properties of the vodka test (Kolmogorov–Smirnov test) or otherwise his meaning regarding repeated mention of the vodka test is completely over my head! what? is it a useless test or what? That’s really old news that statistical tests are sometimes useless in the face of big data due to simple algorithms working really well. I also look forward to Gelman’s begrudged review and discussions about statistical aspects of his work) 

The book probably does the most to make me want to see his data and analysis. To check if his conclusions that (white) Americans are very consciously and obnoxiously racist(oh thank goodness, I thought I was so unfit for this modern society with my own frequent racist thoughts)…that interest in homosexuality is geographically uniformly distributed and limited to 5% minority population, that… Indian men often want to drink wives’ milk, …that all these hulking men and bobbing chicks in America are humping at rate less than half a dozen each fortnight, …that…….

Well let me finish reading the book and learn a bit more and post back in a few years.
And it would be really nice if this ability to look into humanity is preserved some how.

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