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Top 25 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quotes (2025 Update)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Everything is data! And with all this new data, we can finally see through people’s lies.”

1. “Everything is data! And with all this new data, we can finally see through people’s lies.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well be a data scientist.”

2. “The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well be a data scientist.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “The Big Data revolution is less about collecting more and more data. It is about collecting the right data.”

3. “The Big Data revolution is less about collecting more and more data. It is about collecting the right data.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “In the pre-digital age, people hid their embarrassing thoughts from other people. In the digital age, they still hide them from other people, but not from the internet and in particular sites such as Google and PornHub, which protect their anonymity.”

4. “In the pre-digital age, people hid their embarrassing thoughts from other people. In the digital age, they still hide them from other people, but not from the internet and in particular sites such as Google and PornHub, which protect their anonymity.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “As with Google, so with everyone else trying to use data to understand the world. The Big Data revolution is less about collecting more and more data. It is about collecting the right data. But.”

5. “As with Google, so with everyone else trying to use data to understand the world. The Big Data revolution is less about collecting more and more data. It is about collecting the right data. But.”

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6. “People adapt to their experience, and people who are going to be successful find advantages in any situation. The factors that make you successful are your talent and your drive. They are not who gives your commencement speech or other advantages that the biggest name-brand schools offer.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Many people underreport embarrassing behaviors and thoughts on surveys. They want to look good, even though most surveys are anonymous. This is called social desirability bias.”

7. “Many people underreport embarrassing behaviors and thoughts on surveys. They want to look good, even though most surveys are anonymous. This is called social desirability bias.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere – and can use it to understand how our world works.”

8. “But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere – and can use it to understand how our world works.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Until now, that is. This is the second power of Big Data: certain online sources get people to admit things they would not admit anywhere else. They serve as a digital truth serum.”

9. “Until now, that is. This is the second power of Big Data: certain online sources get people to admit things they would not admit anywhere else. They serve as a digital truth serum.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Big Data allows us to finally see what people really want and really do, not what they say they want and say they do. Providing honest data is the second power of Big Data.”

10. “Big Data allows us to finally see what people really want and really do, not what they say they want and say they do. Providing honest data is the second power of Big Data.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Allowing us to zoom in on small subsets of people is the third power of Big Data.”

11. “Allowing us to zoom in on small subsets of people is the third power of Big Data.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “I sometimes suspect that inside every data scientist is a kid trying to figure out why his childhood dreams didn’t come true.”

12. “I sometimes suspect that inside every data scientist is a kid trying to figure out why his childhood dreams didn’t come true.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “The first three – religion, environment, and health insurance – do not correlate with longer life spans for the poor. The variable that does matter, according.”

13. “The first three – religion, environment, and health insurance – do not correlate with longer life spans for the poor. The variable that does matter, according.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “One theory I am working on: Big Data just confirms everything the late Leonard Cohen ever said. For example, Leonard Cohen once gave his nephew the following advice for wooing women: “Listen well. Then listen some more. And when you think you are done listening, listen some more.” That seems to be roughly similar to what these scientists found.”

14. “One theory I am working on: Big Data just confirms everything the late Leonard Cohen ever said. For example, Leonard Cohen once gave his nephew the following advice for wooing women: “Listen well. Then listen some more. And when you think you are done listening, listen some more.” That seems to be roughly similar to what these scientists found.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”

15. “Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “One potential reason students struggle so much is that teachers don’t show up consistently. On a given day in some schools in rural India, more than 40 percent of teachers are absent.”

16. “One potential reason students struggle so much is that teachers don’t show up consistently. On a given day in some schools in rural India, more than 40 percent of teachers are absent.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Facebook is digital brag-to-my-friends-about-how-good-my-life-is serum. In Facebook world, the average adult seems to be happily married, vacationing in the Caribbean, and perusing the Atlantic. In the real world, a lot of people are angry, on supermarket checkout lines, peeking at the National Enquirer, ignoring the phone calls from their spouse, whom they haven’t slept with in years.”

17. “Facebook is digital brag-to-my-friends-about-how-good-my-life-is serum. In Facebook world, the average adult seems to be happily married, vacationing in the Caribbean, and perusing the Atlantic. In the real world, a lot of people are angry, on supermarket checkout lines, peeking at the National Enquirer, ignoring the phone calls from their spouse, whom they haven’t slept with in years.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Big Data allows us to meaningfully zoom in on small segments of a dataset to gain new insights on who we are.”

18. “Big Data allows us to meaningfully zoom in on small segments of a dataset to gain new insights on who we are.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “If more people are making searches saying they want to do something, more people are going to do that thing.”

19. “If more people are making searches saying they want to do something, more people are going to do that thing.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “But those right above or right below the sharp numerical threshold had virtually identical criminal histories and backgrounds. This one measly point, however, meant a very different prison experience. The result? The economists found that prisoners assigned to harsher conditions were more likely to commit additional crimes once they left. The tough prison conditions, rather than deterring them from crime, hardened them and made them more violent once they returned to the outside world.”

20. “But those right above or right below the sharp numerical threshold had virtually identical criminal histories and backgrounds. This one measly point, however, meant a very different prison experience. The result? The economists found that prisoners assigned to harsher conditions were more likely to commit additional crimes once they left. The tough prison conditions, rather than deterring them from crime, hardened them and made them more violent once they returned to the outside world.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Data science takes a natural and intuitive human process – spotting patterns and making sense of them – and injects it with steroids, potentially showing us that the world works in a completely different way from how we thought it did.”

21. “Data science takes a natural and intuitive human process – spotting patterns and making sense of them – and injects it with steroids, potentially showing us that the world works in a completely different way from how we thought it did.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “I am going to get a beer with some friends and stop working on this damn conclusion. Too few of you, Big Data tells me, are still reading.”

22. “I am going to get a beer with some friends and stop working on this damn conclusion. Too few of you, Big Data tells me, are still reading.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Collins and Hansen concluded that successful companies didn’t have more luck; they were better able to capitalize on the luck that they got, the luck that any company can expect.”

23. “Collins and Hansen concluded that successful companies didn’t have more luck; they were better able to capitalize on the luck that they got, the luck that any company can expect.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “And it is certainly possible that lying played a role in the failure of the polls to predict Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. Polls, on average, underestimated his support by about 2 percentage points. Some people may have been embarrassed to say they were planning to support him. Some may have claimed they were undecided when they were really going Trump’s way all along.”

24. “And it is certainly possible that lying played a role in the failure of the polls to predict Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. Polls, on average, underestimated his support by about 2 percentage points. Some people may have been embarrassed to say they were planning to support him. Some may have claimed they were undecided when they were really going Trump’s way all along.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Allowing us to do many causal experiments is the fourth power of Big Data.”

25. “Allowing us to do many causal experiments is the fourth power of Big Data.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Netflix learned a similar lesson early on in its life cycle: don’t trust what people tell you; trust what they do.”

26. “Netflix learned a similar lesson early on in its life cycle: don’t trust what people tell you; trust what they do.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “Happy couples are more likely to be happy in the future. Unhappy couples are more likely to be unhappy in the future.”

27. “Happy couples are more likely to be happy in the future. Unhappy couples are more likely to be unhappy in the future.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “If you can’t understand a study, the problem is with the study, not with you.”

28. “If you can’t understand a study, the problem is with the study, not with you.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Quote: “First, and perhaps most important, if you are going to try to use new data to revolutionize a field, it is best to go into a field where old methods are lousy.”

29. “First, and perhaps most important, if you are going to try to use new data to revolutionize a field, it is best to go into a field where old methods are lousy.”

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