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by titanomachy 900 days ago
Statistically speaking it’s probably true. The fact that you’re friends with them is evidence that they have friends.

See “friendship paradox”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox

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>On average, the people you know are more socially successful than the people you don't know.

It depends if "you" refers to a specific person, which it seems to do in context.

Not really. The folks no one knows are the most successfully ‘non-social’, by definition no?

And by definition, the ones with fewer friends also are known by fewer people.