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Chances are your friends are more popular than you are. It is a basic feature of social networks that has been known about for s
Chances are your friends are more popular than you are. It is a basic feature of social networks that has been known about for s
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2022-08-04
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Chances are your friends are more popular than you are. It is a basic feature of social networks that has been known about for some time. Consider both an enthusiastic party hostess with hundreds of acquaintances and an ill-tempered guy, who may have one or two friends. Statistically speaking, the average person is much more likely to know the hostess simply because she has so many more friends. This, in essence, is what is called the "friendship paradox": the friends of any random individual are likely to be more central to the social web than the individual himself.
Now researchers think this seemingly depressing fact can be made to work as an early warning system to detect outbreaks of contagious diseases. By studying the friends of a randomly selected group of individuals, epidemic disease experts can isolate those people who are more connected to one another and are therefore more likely to catch diseases like the flu early. This could allow health authorities to spot outbreaks weeks in advance of current monitoring methods.
In a report, Nicholas Christakis from Harvard University and James Fowler from the University of California, San Diego put the
friendship paradox
to good use. In a trial carried out last autumn, they monitored the spread of flu through students and their friends at Harvard University, and found that their social links were indeed causing them to get infected sooner.
As this result came after the outbreak, the researchers tried to come up with a real-time measure that could potentially provide an early warning sign of an outbreak as it began to spread. Currently, the conventional methods used to assess an infection lag an outbreak by a week or two. Google’s Flu Trends is at best simultaneous with an outbreak. Dr. Christakis and Dr. Fowler suggest that a compound method might be developed in which the search inquiries of a group of highly connected individuals could be scanned for signs of the flu.
Although the technique has so far only been demonstrated for the flu and in the social surroundings of a university, the researchers nevertheless think that it could help predict other infectious diseases and do so on a larger scale. Nor should it be difficult to implement. Public-health officials already conduct random sampling, so getting the participants to name a few friends too should not be troublesome. When it comes to infectious diseases, your friends really do say a lot about you.
By using the "friendship paradox", people may ________.
选项
A、prevent outbreaks of contagious diseases
B、isolate people from each other to avoid flu
C、abandon the current monitoring methods
D、predict outbreaks of flu earlier than present
答案
D
解析
第二段首句中的this seemingly depressing fact指的是上一段的例子,对应题干中的“friendship paradox”。第二段先提出该现象可被利用来检测传染病爆发的早期预警体系,并在段末说“这能够更早地对流行病的爆发作出预警”,故D项“人们可以比现在更早地预测流感的爆发”为答案。本段仅说利用该方法可作为流感早期预警体系,并不是直接防止传染病的爆发。故A项“防止传染性疾病的爆发”和B项“隔离人群以避免流感”都错误。文中仅说该预警系统可能比现行方法快,但它还处于研究阶段,且也未提到要放弃现行方法,C项“放弃现行的监测方式”不对。
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