Tag: friendship

How Close Are You Really?

How Close Are You Really? by Emerging Technology from the arXiv (MIT Technology Review)

A diagram of your social network reveals the strength of your individual relationships, network scientists say.

Research contextualized in the MIT Technology Review: Social scientists measure the strength of these links using a variety of indicators, such as how often a person calls another, whether that call is reciprocated, the time the two people spend speaking, and so on. But these indicators are often difficult and time-consuming to measure. ➡   The…