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June 12, 2003
Update on the LinkedIn Bets
Posted by Liz Lawley
As a follow-up to
my bet on gender distribution in LinkedIn, I browsed through the first 100 contacts in my network--which has 3081 people now--and found 9 women, most of them in the last 3 pages. None in the top 40. The first woman in my list (at position #42) has 27 connections, but most have fewer than 20.
As to
Clay's power law bet, here's how the number of connections looks on the first page of my network:
1. 291
2. 225
3. 145
4. 123
5. 112
6. 95
7. 70
8. 68
9. 63
10. 63
As I suspected, the curve is there, but it's not quite as steep as Clay predicted. The #10 position is currently at ~22% of the #1 position, rather than 15%. Still, it's a striking distribution.
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