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Professor Theresa Kuchler's and Johannes Stroebel's joint research on tsocial “connectedness” of Americans, as measured through friendship links on Facebook, is featured

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Excerpt from The Economist -- "Using aggregated and anonymised data, the authors find that Americans with tightly clustered social networks comprised mainly of friends located within a short distance of their home tend to have lower incomes, lower levels of education and lower life expectancies. Those with more geographically dispersed social networks tend to be richer, more educated and healthier."

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