[hiptobecubic]

I have two "real" male friends, neither of which I made in the last decade.

I wonder if their point is not that our society doesn't generally agree that the "collaborative" aspects of friendship are better than the "competitive" benefits, but that despite this, we still behave as we do. I wonder if we'd see the same results if this study had been done in a more matriarchal culture than the US.

[greggman3]

I'm curious if church attending people have more friends on average. They have a social gathering they go to at least once a week. Some religions have many more meetups. I'm not a church person but I'd love to find a social club that met a similar amount