{"id":214,"date":"2003-01-25T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2003-01-26T04:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2003-01-25T23:33:18","modified_gmt":"2003-01-26T04:33:18","slug":"is-society-a-small-world-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Is society a small-world network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/01\/25\/arts\/25WATT.html?pagewanted=2\">NYT:<\/a><br \/>\nMr. Barabasi believes the human social network is scale-free with the expected smattering of richly connected hubs. Mr. Watts disagrees. &#8220;If you asked people to list the number of people they recognize, that could be scale-free, everyone recognizes Michael Jordan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But if you said, `Who would you trust to look after your kids?&#8217; That&#8217;s not scale-free. As you start to ratchet up the requirements for what it means to know someone, connections diminish.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: Mr. Barabasi believes the human social network is scale-free with the expected smattering of richly connected hubs. Mr. Watts disagrees. &#8220;If you asked people to list the number of people they recognize, that could be scale-free, everyone recognizes Michael Jordan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But if you said, `Who would you trust to look after your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is society a small-world network&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-3s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}