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On average, the people you know are more socially successful than the people you don't know.
by BurningFrog 3y ago
On average, the people you know are more socially successful than the people you don't know.
- missingrib 3y agoI meant the opposite. It seems like even amongst the relatively normal group of people I know, the rate of sexlessness seems higher than these stats suggest.
- BurningFrog 3y agoOK, I did jump to the opposite conclusion.
- prvc 3y agoMaybe so, but not necessarily true a priori.
- titanomachy 3y agoStatistically speaking it’s probably true. The fact that you’re friends with them is evidence that they have friends. See “friendship paradox”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
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- prvc 3y ago>On average, the people you know are more socially successful than the people you don't know. It depends if "you" refers to a specific person, which it seems to do in context.
- lazide 3y agoNot really. The folks no one knows are the most successfully ‘non-social’, by definition no? And by definition, the ones with fewer friends also are known by fewer people.
- BurningFrog 3y agoSome people don't have a single friend. None of them are in your friend group.
- owl57 3y agoMost people I know, it's because we studied math or wrote programs together. We were selected and got to know each other mostly for solving mathematical or coding problems. There's a stereotype that these skills correlate negatively with social ones — I'm not sure if it's the case, but at least the opposite isn't obvious.