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June 12, 2003

Update on the LinkedIn Bets

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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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