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What is the meaning of the common medical root?  Thyr/o

The roots gyn/o and gynec/o both means:

Prof.Fowler told us that generosity is extremely contagious. If you give more, your friend’s friend’s friend will on average also be more generous. Social network effects end up tripling the generosity in that social network.

Prof. Fowler and colleagues have proven that simple messages like “I voted” on social online networks like Facebook had a measurable effect that motivated tens of thousands of people to get out and vote

Thanks to computational social science methods, the study of social networks in online settings became very popular, because it allows us to web scrape the data. When someone refers to “social networks” in the social science, it is implied that we talk about social media like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.

In the lecture, we reviewed a case study of Alan Greenspan, the long-serving Chairman of U.S. monetary policy. What was the main takeaway from this case study?  

In the lecture, we said that “all models are wrong, but some are useful”. Why is that?

Someone tells you that a pattern is “non-linear”. Which of the following statement is something you can NOT expect?  

Which constitutional amendment outlaws illegal searches and seizures by police?

Prof. James Fowler showed us a study where he discussed that something extends up to three degrees of separation in social networks. What was this influential and pioneering study about?