Blending the informed analysis of "The Signal and the Noise" with the instructive iconoclasm of "Think Like a Freak," this book provides a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveal about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions. By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information—unprecedented in history—can tell us a great deal about who we are, including the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, as well as the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that, less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable. "Everybody Lies" offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything.