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The Network Effects of Friendship
David Burke: It's almost a cliche, right? I've heard you even say it. You're the average of the five poopy suraffes. The research for this comes from two just brilliant network scientists, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. They looked at data from the Framingham heart study, which is the largest and longest running one of the biggest health studies ever.