Everybody Lies

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

First, because poor men tend to end up shorter. Scholars have long known that childhood health care and nutrition play a large role in adult health. This is why the average man in the developed world is now four inches taller than a century and a half ago. Data suggests that Americans from poor backgrounds, due to weaker

early-life health care and nutrition, are shorter.

On Facebook, we show our cultivated selves, not our true selves.

don’t trust what people tell you; trust what they do.

“The algorithms know you better than you know yourself,”