Simon Rogers

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267 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jun

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Something You Should Know · The Science of Getting Lucky & What People Secretly Google · 7 May 2026 podcast

They're not so much statisticians or analysts, but really what we do is we use the data to help tell stories about the world around us, really.

And why do you do that?

Well, I think it's basically because this data that we have tells us a lot about who we are as humans and the things that we care about and the things that we focus on every day.

And I think with data on its own, if you just see data or numbers, they're just numbers.

They don't mean anything.

And I think often it takes a person to help translate that for people and see how we can see ourselves reflected back to us through the data.

Well, I would say there are a couple of things that came through in the data while I was looking at it.

One of which is that we are not as lonely as we may feel.

The things that we do in search are things that everybody else does too.

And we may not realize it.

We may think we're the only person looking for something.

But actually, you're often part of a community whether you realize it or not.

The second thing I would say is we're really seeing a big spike in people wanting to help others.

And you see this in search where people search for how to help or how to donate after a crisis has happened or there's been an earthquake and people want to respond to it.

And you definitely see that coming through in the data.

And then the other thing I would say is that we know a lot less than we think we do.

So essentially, all of the basic things in life that perhaps we feel we should have learned by now, we search for every day, whether it's like, you know, how to tie a tie or how to boil an egg.

So really, we know nothing and we need help to get through our everyday lives.

Absolutely.

And people, you find that people search for how to fix, say, or how do I do this?

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