How Do People Know Each Other? Counting the Uncountable

人们如何相互认识？

• 批准号: 9213615
• 负责人: H. Russell Bernard
• 金额: $ 12.96万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-03-15 至 1995-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9213615&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: How; Do; People; Know; Each

For the past six years this research team has been testing a model for estimating the size of uncontrollable populations (populations like victims of rape, or people who are HIV-sero- positive, or homeless people). The model has shown promise but has also shown some clear shortcomings, as a result of having almost no theory regarding the rules governing social networks - that is, the rules governing who people know and what they know about one another. The investigator's program of research will a) illuminate those rules and b) improve model for estimating the size of uncountable populations. Two studies are planned. The first study addresses the question: How difficult is it to know various things about other people? Given, for example, that it is easier to know the occupation of those identified in a network than it is to know their blood type, how can this difference be measured, and what conditions of "knowing" one another does this difficulty depend on? The second study addresses the question: How many people do we know well enough to know their occupation or blood type - or a host of other kinds of information? The importance of the topic area is very great, both for fundamental research and for applied and policy purposes.

在过去的六年里，这个研究小组一直在测试 估计不可控人口规模的模型 （强奸受害者或艾滋病毒血清感染者等人群） 无家可归的人）。 该模式显示出了希望， 也显示出一些明显的缺点，由于 几乎没有关于社交网络规则的理论- 也就是说，人们认识谁，知道什么， 关于彼此 研究人员的研究计划将 a）阐明这些规则和B）改进用于估计 无数的人口。 计划进行两项研究。 的 第一项研究提出了这样一个问题： 关于其他人的各种事情 例如，如果它 更容易知道那些在网络中被识别的人的职业 比知道他们的血型更重要，这种差异怎么可能 测量，以及“了解”彼此的条件是什么 困难取决于？ 第二份研究报告探讨了这个问题： 有多少人我们足够了解他们的职业 或者血型，或者其他信息 的 主题领域的重要性是非常大的，无论是对基础 研究和应用和政策目的。