In 2004, “the most common search regarding changing one’s butt was how to make it smaller,” Stephens-Davidowitz writes. Of course, Google searches reveal that women too have their own body hang-ups - but their concerns have changed over time. The second-most common search by men, Stephens-Davidowitz found, is “how to make their sexual encounters longer.” But here too, their concerns conflict with women’s, as “there are roughly the same number of searches asking how to make a boyfriend climax more quickly as climax more slowly.” In addition, women’s concerns about penis size are often the opposite of what men fear, as “more than 40 percent of complaints about a partner’s penis size say that it’s too big.” “For every search women make about a partner’s phallus,” Stephens-Davidowitz writes, “men make roughly 170 searches about their own.” Google searches indicate that penis size is far more important to men than it is to women. Here are some of his fascinating findings: SEX: Small members, big butts “I am now convinced,” he writes, “that Google searches are the most important data set ever collected on the human psyche.” What he found is that Internet search data might be the Holy Grail when it comes to understanding the true nature of humanity. In addition to anonymous information about Google searches, he has “downloaded all of Wikipedia, pored through Facebook profiles,” and even received the complete (though anonymous) search and video view data from the popular porn site PornHub. Stephens-Davidowitz, a former data scientist at Google, has spent the last four years poring over Internet search data. Internet search data might be the Holy Grail when it comes to understanding the true nature of humanity. Even men curious about the aging process have one question first and foremost in mind: “Will my penis get smaller?” “Men conduct more searches for how to make their penises bigger than how to tune a guitar, make an omelette or change a tire,” he writes. “Men Google more questions about their sexual organ than any other body part: more than about their lungs, liver, feet, ears, nose, throat and brain combined,” writes Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in his new book, “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Re- ally Are” (Dey St.). On the whole, American men like to project sexual confidence, but an analysis of Internet searches tells another story entirely - that they are gravely concerned about the size of their penises.

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