Is That Prosperity Calling?

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AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in an article entitled Is That Prosperity Calling? reports that the answer is -- Yes.
Through a mathematical study of anonymized telephone records, and other means, the team determined that communities with more diverse social connections tend to be more prosperous than communities that are more insular.
"The paper represents "an early illustration of the promise of computational social science," says behavioral scientist Noshir Contractor of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. This team's efforts show how such vast data can help to tease out longstanding puzzles in social science."
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