Averages are misleading
Lead author George Cantwell says averages are often highly misleading. Some people are less popular than their friends. Others are more so.
Cantwell and his colleagues developed a new mathematical equation to help researchers understand the paradox of friendship in real-world social networks. They based their equation on two assumptions:
- There is a large degree of variation in how many friends people have.
- Popular people often have popular friends, and unpopular people have unpopular friends.
Their new equations could explain 95% of the variance.
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