School Networking: Friends versus Connections By Bryan Caplan

Thanks to everyone who participated in my exploratory survey on school networking. Anyone who wants to play with the data can download it here.

At least in this admittedly self-selected sample, the two big patterns are:

1. People make lots of friends at school at all academic levels.

2. People make few professional connections at school at any academic level.

The histograms…

Question 1: How many people you met in K-12 are you still friends with?

Question 2: How many people you met in K-12 do you professionally interact with?