Sublime

people already seen as white got to decide who was white.9

Beware the Forer Effect—believing a generic statement was tailored for you.

Dead Fish

In real life, our contacts partition neatly into small groups that rarely overlap and seldom interact, so it is possible to present very different personas to different constituencies. Facebook allowed many of these people to sign up to the same shared community and this exposed everyone to the different versions of you.

Sociologists have been aware for some considerable time that social networks decline progressively as we enter old age.

used the average number of different people phoned during a month (essentially the sympathy group, or 15-layer) to explore changes in network size with age.

Just as Young predicted, we have created an academic sorting machine: selecting talent on a narrow set of metrics which have questionable real-world relevance for many students.

Nothing exposes the seams of a group faster than the fraught world of care.

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