ADHD individuals are often criticized and sometimes rejected by friends and colleagues who view their struggles as personality defects or plain-and-simple failures.

Your friends are on average more popular than you are, according to a phenomenon known as the "friendship paradox." But it turns out, there's some nuance to that.

Roadmap. Here’s a quick roadmap of what I’ll cover below: I’ll begin by recapping some of the argumentation from S.L. Feld’s seminal 1991 paper on the friendship paradox [1].

What the friendship paradox means is this: If I asked you who your friends are, and then I met them, on the whole I would find them to be better socially connected than you.

The friendship paradox is the empirical observation that your friends have more friends than you do. Now network scientists say your friends are probably wealthier and happier, too.

The friendship paradox. The fact that most of our friends have more friends than we do is old news. Scott Feld figured out in the ‘90s that most people have fewer friends than their friends.

The Friendship Paradox. We all want more time with our friends, but we’re spending more time alone. By Olga Khazan. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. September 4, 2024. Share. Save.

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