Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Facebook Study Finds Race Trumped by Ethnic, Social, Geographic Origins in Forging Friendships

This story was very long but I felt it didn't need to be.  I got uninterested in it pretty quickly into it.

To make it better, they could have made it shorter by getting to the point more quickly.

They made some assumptions that I thought needed to be justified a bit better.  For example, saying that tagged photos were a better indicator of people who've spent time together in real-life social settings.

The premise is that race is not the predominant factor in deciding who pairs with whom.  They found other factors that they say are more important but they don't give the process by which they came to their conclusions from their data.

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