The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years on “Papers I Keep Rereading”, a list by Andre Coleman on TheLysts.
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Name
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Authors
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
Year
2007
Field
Epidemiology / Social networks
Why it stuck
Shows how health behaviors ripple through friendships; also the first paper that made me realize my beer-and-wings group chat is basically a small-scale public health experiment.
My take
Makes me track steps after pickup because apparently your friends’ BMI can forecast yours—wild stat, even wilder when you remember they did this with Framingham data, not Fitbit toys.
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