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Friendship Paradox

Why Your Friends Have More Friends

Your friends probably have more friends than you. It's not you, it's how counting works: popular people show up in many friend lists, so they get counted again and again. The friendship paradox in under a minute.

Sources (2)
  1. Scott L. Feld, "Why Your Friends Have More Friends than You Do", American Journal of Sociology, 1991 (opens in a new tab)
  2. Ugander et al., "The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph", 2011 (opens in a new tab)

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