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Re:Data Science of the Facebook World by taliesinb on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @05:11PM (#5604002)
Actually, NONE of the people in our dataset had zero friends. The x-axis starts at 1, not 0. The point is that resampling to remove the friendship paradox shows that there are many more people with single-digit friends than we expected.
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Re:Data Science of the Facebook World by pbnjay on Thursday April 25, 2013 @09:13AM (#5606947)
Given mcintyre1994's comment, I think this still explains the same situation. People with single-digit friends are simply people who have friends blocked to apps but have multiple friends who've donated data.
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Re:Data Science of the Facebook World by taliesinb on Thursday April 25, 2013 @07:58PM (#5610732)
No, we can tell when someone's privacy settings have given them a zero friend count, and they're not included in that aggregation.
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