Quotes by Nicholas A. Christakis - Page 1

It's important for students to take their studies seriously.
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Studies
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We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.
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Individual
Study
Individuals
Studying
We Cannot
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I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
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Mets
Real
Real Life
Facebook
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Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
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Happiness
Contagious
Everyday
People
Definitely
Interactions
Terms
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People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
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Acquaintance
Ifs
People
Acquaintances
Assumed
Facebook
Influenced
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My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
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Growing Up
Ill
Parent
Thinking
Youth
Entire
Grow Up
Incredibly
Marked
Spent
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It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
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Culture
Genes
Genetics
Imagine
Possible
Historically
Immutable
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It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
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Population
Structure
Wealth
Depend
Surrounds
Whom
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Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.
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Technology
Inspiration
Intricate
Motivation
Complex
Networks
Elaborate
Social Networks
Ubiquitous
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It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.
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Dying
Fashionable
Harder
Medicine
Policy
Population
Public Policy
Vulnerable
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The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.
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Advantage
Benefits
Cost
Fashion
Species
Assemble
Networks
Individuals
Outweigh
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What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.
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Technology
Brain
Capacity
Groups
Human Brain
Enables
Interactions
Monitor
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Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.
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Adding
Networks
Explain
Glass
Match
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One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.
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Confidence
Citizens
Donors
Frontiers
Missing
Moving
University
Victory
Miss
Declare
Politicians
Move On
Sciences
Social Sciences
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We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.
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Space
Compounds
Extremes
Genes
Lying
Range
Stars
Immediately
Inanimate
Inhabit
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Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.
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Ability
Attributes
Capacity
Changed
Fundamentals
Interaction
Internet
Media
Propensity
Social
Social Media
Violence
Love Social Media Media
Any
Basic
Those
Human
Fundamental
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Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.
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Appreciate
Connections
Embedded
Existence
Intricate
Our Lives
Affects
Effect
Network
Pattern
Profoundly
Surrounded
Unaware
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There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.
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Care
Fundamentals
Roles
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There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.
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Advantage
Our Lives
Understood
Networks
Fundamental
Improve
Social Networks
Take Advantage
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We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.
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Ifs
Smoking
Weight
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We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.
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Average
Bunch
Online
Real Friends
Work Done Your
Acquaintances
Affects
Work People Real
Facebook
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Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.
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Decades
Genes
Humans
Inevitable
May
Medicine
Realizing
Revolution
Thinking
Centuries
Inadvertently
Millennia
Provides
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I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.
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Health
Biased
Class
Illness
Inequality
Investigating
Monopoly
Social Class
Suggesting
Topics
Distributed
Profiling
Racial
Scientists
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.
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Components
Embedded
Fallacy
Solitary
Deeply
First Of All
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It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.
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Breadth
Complexity
Genetics
Novelty
Behavioral
Computational
Departments
Include
Network
Reflect
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The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.
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Behavior
Challenges
Deeper
Equal
Individual
Intellectual
Natural
Our Lives
Promise
Social
Today
Understanding
Welfare
Through
Collective
Human
Greatly
Improved
Institutional
Match
Natural Sciences
Offer
Realize
Sciences
Social Sciences
Structures
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We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.
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Bunch
Conventional
Embedded
Genes
Structure
Ties
Together People Live
Together Live People
Conventional Way
Networks
Together People Way
Hang
Pattern
Social Networks
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It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.
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Connected
Cutting
Fundamentals
Good Things
Our Lives
Spread
Ties
Good Always Me
Good Me Way
Emerge
Fundamental
Network
Required
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.
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Humanity
Order
Thinking
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If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.
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