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Friendship Paradox

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The Paradox

On average, your friends have more friends than you do. This is mathematically guaranteed!

E[friends of friends] ≥ E[friends]

Why? People with many connections appear as "your friend" more often, skewing the average upward. This is a sampling bias: high-degree nodes are overrepresented in everyone's friend list.