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Pros & Cons
Pros
Authors explore impact on connectedness and paring on life, health, longevity. Study of teen * practices in one town will straighten the hair of any parent of teenagers.
Social networks have the capacity for contagion, for influences to flow through the connections. Social capital is perhaps one of the key explanatory variables in the manifestation of different social phenomena. Applying the powerful lens of social ne... Read More
Christakis and fowler do a commendable job of explaining all of this. They argue that both these perspectives can be complemented by a third, overarching perspective, a network perspective. The authors discuss the telephone game and errors, while re-t... Read More
Cons
Anyone with half a brain realizes that this is clearly not true, but in order to achieve widespread influence, a scientist needs a catchy rule like 3 degrees of influence. They also assert the obviously false claim that our influence extends to three ... Read More
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Quality
It was an easy read and gave me a new way of looking at relationships with the people in my life
The influence of social connections on our health and wellbeing is hugely significant
Competitiveness
Excellent book on networks in the real world
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social, good, great, connected and human. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 517 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 30 2023.
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The data is there and it has only gained momentum since this book was published
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Social networks the good the bad and the ugly
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Far from the grand unifying theory of social networks its more like a plate of appetizers that help you decide whether or not you want to move to the main course
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A word of warning though dont take the results of studies cited in this book at face value
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But a quick google search would net you half a dozen recent publications claiming that marriage actually reduces the life expectancy in women while still increasing it in men
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im not saying this to cast doubt on the rigor of research in this book but to point out that social studies in general are notoriously unreliable and all too often yield different results even across slightly different demographics
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You are the average of the 5 people you hang out with most
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I struggled a bit with portions of the book
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