How well do you know your friends' political views? According to recent work by Winter Mason, Duncan Watts, and myself, you probably don't know them as well as you think. In particular, we found that when friends disagree on a political issue, they are unaware of that disagreement about 60% of... »
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What Your Friends Don’t Know About You
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Tags: homophily, politics, social networks
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Sharad Goel (@5harad) and Daniel Reeves (@dreev) are present and past members of the Microeconomics and Social Systems (MESS) Group at Yahoo! Research. Kelly Savage illustrates the blog.
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