The Friendship Paradox
Your friends have more friends than you do. So do mine. This is true for almost everybody, all at the same time.
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American sociology and social network analysis
Scott L. Feld
1947
Sociologist, latterly at Purdue University, who works on social network structure and the "focus theory" of how ties form. His 1991 paper "Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do" named and explained the friendship paradox, using Coleman's data on adolescent friendships to show the effect in a real network.