ToDaZeD What WE Pay For
not as charged as African grundle-washing, but...
Think you’re popular? Well, name a friend. It turns out that this person is probably more popular than you, a tendency that scientists might be able to use to predict the spread of disease. ...
...if people are asked to name a friend or two, they are more likely to choose someone who connects them to others ... could be important to working out how a flu pandemic or some other nasty virus is likely to behave. ... experts on social networks and have used their methodology to show that obesity, smoking and other behaviors are directly related to a person’s friends, and the friends of their friends. ...
It does not yet work perfectly but Fowler thinks there may be a way to get the popular “friends” at the hubs of social networks to volunteer to let their Web searches be monitored in such a database.
“This is one way we could really turn friends into our crystal ball,” Fowler said.
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