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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 07 2015, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the whatcha-lookin-at-bub dept.

MedicalXpress is reporting on new research [Abstract only; full article pay-walled, but available for free (PDF)] into the "Friendship Paradox", as published (online) in the journal Psychological Science by researchers at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business.

The MedicalXpress article says, in part:

Social scientists have long known that, statistically speaking, our friends are probably more popular than we are. It's a simple matter of math: Because extraverted people tend to have more friends, they are disproportionately represented in social networks—which means everyone's network is more extraverted than the population as a whole.

New research by researchers Daniel C. Feiler and Adam M. Kleinbaum of Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College extends this so-called "friendship paradox" beyond a purely mathematical claim, documenting the phenomenon within the emerging social networks of a new class of MBA students. Not only did the researchers show that extraversion bias exists in real-world networks, they found the effect is more pronounced in the networks of socially outgoing people. In other words, popular people are not immune from the friendship paradox—they experience it more intensely than others.

[...] "If you're more extraverted, you might really have a skewed view of how extraverted other people are in general," Feiler says. "If you're very introverted you might actually have a pretty accurate idea."

[...] The rest of us view our social world through a distorted lens—a kind of carnival mirror that makes us feel less loved than our friends, and creates the impression that others are more social than they truly are. This could have profound effects on our job performance, relationships and self-esteem.

"There's a tendency to wonder, 'am I normal?'" Feiler says. "And our research suggests that you're probably more normal than you think."

Does this mean that we, as a species, are less social than we think?

Now get off my lawn!

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by quadrox on Tuesday April 07 2015, @12:59PM

    by quadrox (315) on Tuesday April 07 2015, @12:59PM (#167413)

    Sorry for meta/OT, but please please please for the love of god fix the spelling of extr_O_verted in the summary.

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  • (Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Tuesday April 07 2015, @01:23PM

    by sudo rm -rf (2357) on Tuesday April 07 2015, @01:23PM (#167422) Journal

    Which spelling is the right one? Typing extrOversion into wiki redirects me to extrAversion... In other words, what spelling are you complaining about? Was it wrong in the headline and it is now fixed OR the other way round.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 07 2015, @01:53PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 07 2015, @01:53PM (#167436) Journal
      Extroversion [merriam-webster.com] is the English spelling. Extraversion is according to the preceding link the German spelling of the word.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2015, @01:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2015, @01:57PM (#167438)

      Typing extrOversion into wiki redirects me to extrAversion...

      No, typing extrOversion into wiki just adds that word to the page. Oh, you didn't mean the edit box? ;-)

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 08 2015, @12:49AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 08 2015, @12:49AM (#167661) Journal

      Which spelling is the right one?

      Definitely extraversion is the right one.
      It's like "pizza with extra cheese", except in this case the word will indicate a request for some "supplementary version" to be added.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday April 07 2015, @05:12PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 07 2015, @05:12PM (#167502) Journal

    We try to maintain the quoted portions of the source exactly 'as is' - and in this instance they chose the extraversion spelling which, at least according to some dictionaries and wikipedia, is an acceptable alternative spelling. However, neither of my spell checks (en.US and en.GB) accept extraversion.

    Nevertheless, changing the spelling in the title alone does not seem to be justified as it understandable with either spelling. It doesn't look right to me either, but I don't think that it detracts too much from the story content.

    • (Score: 1) by No Respect on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:20PM

      by No Respect (991) on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:20PM (#167550)

      It does detract from the story when a 4th Grade spelling mistake is embedded in it. Would you correct a story that used "loose" instead of "lose"? There's a reason your spellcheckers don't accept it. It doesn't look right because it is, in fact, not right. I've never seen it spelled with an 'a'. As in never. If someone translated the original from German then fixing it would be a repair action.

  • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:44PM

    by CoolHand (438) on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:44PM (#167567) Journal

    this article [preludecharacteranalysis.com] and do a nice job discussing this [personalitycafe.com]. Basically, it sounds like extravert is the correct technical usage, while extrovert is fairly commonly used..

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