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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Valdis, Tom, My suspicion is that trying to critique serious research via a 10 paragraph summation in the popular (or at least quasi-popular ...) press may not be so helpful - the press is, unfortunately, notoriously bad at reporting this kind of information. This is of course not to say that it is or isn't crap - just that it's impossible to tell. Has anyone actually had the time to look over the research paper referred to in the news piece? (I haven't) I wonder if the physicists took the time to confer with anyone who does real work in the field.... Cheers, Stephen. ------------------------------------- Stephen Bird Department of Political Science Boston University [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Valente Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:49 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: All Networks Look the Same? ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** the hundreds of networks I've studied don't either, but we study humans -Tom Valdis wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > Hmm... I have real networks from real organizations that do NOT look > like this... > > http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050129/fob3.asp > > Any other views? > > Valdis > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > -- To learn more about my evaluation book go to: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195141768.html My personal webpage: http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~tvalente/ --- Thomas W. Valente, PhD Director, Master of Public Health Program http://www.usc.edu/medicine/mph/ Department of Preventive Medicine School of Medicine University of Southern California 1000 S. Fremont Ave. Building A Room 5133 Alhambra CA 91803 phone: (626) 457-6678 fax: (626) 457-6699 email: [log in to unmask] _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.