People don't lie to their computers about what they're looking for sexually, even in regions where it is unsafe to voice their desires aloud. in economics at Harvard University and spending five years combing through Google Trends, he's sure that 'people tell Google things that they don't tell to possibly anybody else, things they might not tell to family members, friends, anonymous surveys, or doctors.”Įspecially when it comes to sex, he said.
'Google is a digital truth serum,' author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz told Vox. After earning a Ph.D. There are a lot of gay men in the closet in certain parts of the U.S., and women are concerned that their husbands are among them, according to the new book Everybody Lies, which uses the Google Trends tool to peek under the hood of America's psyche.