S3E19: Social Network Analysis: Making Connections with Tracy Sweet
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Do You Have a Symmetrical Relationship Between Patrick and You?
Tracy: In a way, everything that youare talking about can be thought of as a form of measurement. For example, friendship is those weird relationships that could be either so we often think of friendship as a by directional relationship. There are probably many people that you wouldlist as friends that may not list you as friends. So i have been described as an unreciprocated friend. Yes, that's impossible. If my seeking is a good example, because there is that hierarchy. Sometimes you have more junior people going to more senior people. We might be interested in things like racial or ethnic or gender, homophyle - this idea that people who are similar or more likely
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