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the fuckgraph (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245634594_Chains_of_Affection_The_Structure_of_Adolescent_Romantic_and_Sexual_Networks1

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That one circular chain of people who seemed mostly to agree of having either two gfs or two bfs and never crossing another person in the chain...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I kept looking at that too. It's crazy to me that there are only 2 cycles in the graph and one is the big accidental one. It honestly makes me think that either something must be wrong with the data, or it's reflective of some deep principle of math or sexuality (e.g. that people won't fuck around within their close social grouping nearly as readily as they will with people on the outskirts of it).

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago

The authors wrote that they were surprised too and went back to talk to the students and apparently there was an unwritten rule that you don’t date the ex of the new partner of your ex. So if Bob and Alice split up and Alice starts dating Ben, then Bob should not date Ben’s ex Alison.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've spotted five cycles.

  1. The big boy.
  2. Six member cycle at the top of the big boy.
  3. Four member cycle with that guy who slept with nine girls.
  4. A second cycle with that same guy.
  5. That three way over to the right.

It's possible there's more but I'm pretty sure that's it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Aaaahhh got it. So the whole issue was my lack of paying attention. Makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also feels weird there's only one same gender connection (female to female) as far as I could see in that whole thing...

[–] ricecake 11 points 10 months ago

There's also a male male in the left side of the ring

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

There's a male-male one on the rightward branch of the ring structure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I find that extremely unlikely to occur. There's just no way it's a single link circle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That circle is just the scientific representation of the old Tom Leherer song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qFG0uop9k