The Relationship Test

by olugbam • 12 years ago

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tibbon• 12 years ago

Hmm, I'm not entirely sure I understand the "assimilation score". My partner Sarah is at the top, which makes sense, but then some people I barely know (brother of an ex, etc) are like #3 and 4, even though we only have two mutual friends. I have approximately 1,000 friends on FB... so maybe that's broken something?

dangle• 12 years ago

Same here. Top three are partner, mother and sister. Makes sense. 4 is someone I haven't talked to in 8 years and barely know.

ericdykstra• 12 years ago

Similar questions here, and I have much fewer Facebook friends (around 350). My wife is #1, and it's not even close (66560 compared to #2, who is 8145).

But after that, I have a few people I don't care at all about in my top 10 (I'm thinking of just removing 3-4 of them now that I see that they're still my friends), and a couple of my closest friends have a score of 1.

liuhenry• 12 years ago

From the linked paper [1], it looks like the scores are calculated based on a concept of "dispersion", which is how closely a particular individual in your network is connected to each of the separate clusters of people you know.

Each of the clusters in the graph represents a "social foci", such as co-workers, high school classmates, college classmates, etc.

The dispersion score calculates how well someone you know is connected to these multiple disjoint clusters of people in your life, and tries to show that the person with the highest score is most likely to be your romantic partner.

This probably doesn't work so well in trying to identify friends, since it's likely that a close friend from college may not know any of your friends from work, or your high school classmates.

1 - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6753v1.pdf

silencio• 12 years ago

I think this had a field day with my disparate groups of ~300 friends/family. I have two huge clusters of school vs work, with school split into high school vs college, and 4 smaller, fuzzier clusters of other groups (gamers, irc buddies, 2x family). My husband came in first with a score of 1310000+ with our roommate second at 343000+.

Most of the next 20 people or so (scores >30k) are people we invited to our wedding that we found out later friended others that attended our wedding, or are people part of multiple groups (tech people that I game with). I'm not sure I'd call these people more central to my life just because they're more social though, after a point.

waterlesscloud• 12 years ago

Number 1 is my brother, which makes sense. He knows many different groups of my friends.

Number 2 is a friend who's a movie producer, ie a professional friendmaker. He's got a zillion friends.

After that it's kind of random.

Three of the women I've actually dated are literally at the bottom of the list. Makes sense, several times I've dated completely out of my circles. Funny to see though.

What's weird is that one of those women's friends, who I otherwise don't know at all, is near the top. Well above the woman I actually dated. We have no other friends in common. Interesting.

silverpepsi• 12 years ago

My 4 best friends in the world rank (well there are 5 but one quit Facebook): 1st, 6th, 13th, and 40th; 18th already begins in with people I kinda sorta don't like or am at least ambivalent about.

Needless to say, it is a mess and doesn't support people who have lived in different places all that well LOL.

CSDude• 12 years ago

Nice, but the UI lags too much for me. I have ~200 friends.

s4sharpie• 12 years ago

Agreed - if ever there was an example of why performance matters on a web app. I gave up after the spinner was still spinning after I had navigated away and back (and replied to 5 emails)

alexanderss• 12 years ago

#1 is my ex, #2 and #3 are guys I barely know. After that, the top 10-20 are just the Facebook friends that are most active on Facebook.

kafkaesque• 12 years ago

That's interesting because #1 is my ex (who's not too active on Facebook), as well. But #2 is my cousin who is hardly active on there. #3 is someone who is kind of active but I never hung out with much.

My current girlfriend, who is not active on FB at all (she's more of a lurker), is basically last, with only 1 assimilation point.

I only have a little over 100 friends, though.

bussiere• 12 years ago

It bugs when you have more than 1000 friends the scripts takes too long and freeze the browser ....

pauleastlund2• 12 years ago

#1 is my wife, by literally an order of magnitude. That's about right; we have a truly extraordinary relationship.

After that, unfortunately, this ranking is nonsense. #2 is someone I met once and have never communicated with since. We have only one friend in common. Totally bizarre. My good friends are scattered between ranks 5 and 50, amidst a sea of near-strangers.

sylvinus• 12 years ago

Exactly the same here. #1 is my wife and #2 is a relative stranger, which I should actually not have on Facebook. Probably a bug.

corobo• 12 years ago

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