DON'T TRUST YOUR GUT

From baseline questions of what's "normal," to explorations of dating and marriage, personal finance, parenthood, jobs and more, Seth takes on that most perennial of publishing categories, self-help. He'll turn it upside down and blow it to bits to deliver amazing insights into what really makes us happy and fulfilled. Moreover, his challenge to the traditional form of the self-help genre gives the book a playful edge that has some fun with the customs and rules of the self-help universe.

As with Everybody Lies, this book will be a natural media sensation, with facts, figures and findings that shock, amaze and delight; ideas that can be pulled apart and parsed across the media landscape. It focuses on the issues and big questions that we think about all of us every day. The book will take readers right up to the cutting edge of data science, showing us how much more it can do by the day and where it's headed.

Though we might scarcely believe it (since Seth has, after all, called us all liars), he is just the person to give us a little bit of hope and positivity, while also reminding us that our intuition is pretty lousy and we don't know very much.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has used data from the internet -- particularly Google searches -- to get new insights into the human psyche. He was previously a data scientist at Google and is currently a contributing op-ed writer for theNew York Times. He is a former visiting lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Hereceived his BA in philosophy,Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford, and his PhD in economics from Harvard.

(Previously titled YOU KNOW LESS THAN YOU THINK YOU DO)