Facebook And Social Science: How To Thin Friends And Influence People

280120 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Host Ira Flatow and James Fowler in conversation.

Your social network has more of an influence on you than you might think. In this clip from “Go Figure,” a program from the Big Ideas series at the 2014 World Science Festival, social scientist James Fowler dives into the science of the subtle behavioral effects of friend groups and describes a massive Facebook experiment his team conducted during the 2010 U.S. election.

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