It has become a real reflex: today, when we have the slightest problem, we will look for a solution on Google. Part doctor, psychologist, pharmacist, therapist and teacher, the world’s best-known search engine can answer almost any question.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an American economist passionate about “big data”, decided to study our research on Google in order to draw an objective and exhaustive portrait of our anxieties … And the result is as funny as it is frightening.
Unsurprisingly, in the United States, male internet users are obsessed with … their penises. “Men’s Google searches for their penises outnumber any of their lungs, liver, feet, ears, nose, throat and brain combined,” writes the specialist. Worse: “men do more research to know how to make their penises bigger than to know how to tune a guitar, make an omelet or change a wheel”.
The boys, geniuses; girls, overweight
Before adding: “For every Google search a woman does on her partner’s gender size, a man makes 170 about his own attribute.” And when women look for information on penises, it is more about “too big” penises. “
We know that Google is also a great tool for parents. For example, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz found that the parents of a little boy did 2.5 times more research “Is my son a genius” than the parents of a little girl. Ditto, parents Google “is my daughter overweight” twice as much as “is my son overweight”. At the roots of sexism …
“Google searches constitute the largest database ever collected on the human psyche,” says the researcher. We don’t really know whether to laugh or cry …
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