I find that extremely unlikely to occur. There’s just no way it’s a single link circle.
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Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
That one circular chain of people who seemed mostly to agree of having either two gfs or two bfs and never crossing another person in the chain…
nbafantest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
muzzle@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That circle is just the scientific representation of the old Tom Leherer song!
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 months ago
I kept looking at that too. It's crazy to me that there are only 2 cycles in the graph. It honestly makes me think that either something must be wrong with the data, or it's reflective of some deep principle of math or sexuality (e.g. that people won't fuck around within their close social grouping nearly as readily as they will with people on the outskirts of it).
jnplch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
The authors wrote that they were surprised too and went back to talk to the students and apparently there was an unwritten rule that you don’t date the ex of the new partner of your ex. So if Bob and Alice split up and Alice starts dating Ben, then Bob should not date Ben’s ex Alison.
Jimbob0i0@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also feels weird there’s only one same gender connection (female to female) as far as I could see in that whole thing…
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
There’s also a male male in the left side of the ring
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
There’s a male-male one on the rightward branch of the ring structure.
Liz@midwest.social 5 months ago
I’ve spotted five cycles.
It’s possible there’s more but I’m pretty sure that’s it.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 months ago
Aaaahhh got it. So the whole issue was my lack of paying attention all along. Makes sense.