Mr. Gladwell offers the following list of surnames taken at random from the Manhattan phone book. Give yourself a point for every surname that is shared by someone you know -- by the author's definition, "if you sat down next to that person on a train, you would know their name if they introduced themselves to you and they would know your name."
Multiple names count. If the name is Johnson, and you know three Johnsons, you get three points. Your score should roughly represent how social you are.
In his book, Mr. Gladwell says scores tend to vary by age, with groups he tested averaging about 21 for college students and 40 for professionals in their 30s to 50s.
Connectors, on the other hand, score very high in every age group, with some hitting 90 to 100 and more.
Algazi
Alvarez
Alpern
Ametrano
Andrews
Aran
Arnstein
Ashford
Bailey
Ballout
Bamberger
Baptista
Barr
Barrows
Baskerville
Bassiri
Bell
Bokgese
Brandao
Bravo
Brooke
Brightman
Billy
Blau
Bohen
Bohn
Borsuk
Brendle
Butler
Calle
Cantwell
Carrell
Chinlund
Cirker
Cohen
Collas
Couch
Callegher
Calcaterra
Cook
Carey
Cassell
Chen
Chung
Clarke
Cohn
Carton
Crowley
Curbelo
Dellamanna
Diaz
Dirar
Duncan
Dagostino
Delakas
Dillon
Donaghey
Daly
Dawson
Edery
Ellis
Elliott
Eastman
Easton
Famous
Fermin
Fialco
Finklestein
Farber
Falkin
Feinman
Friedman
Gardner
Gelpi
Glascock
Grandfield
Greenbaum
Greenwood
Gruber
Garil
Goff
Gladwell
Greenup
Gannon
Ganshaw
Garcia
Gennis
Gerard
Gericke
Gilbert
Glassman
Glazer
Gomendio
Gonzalez
Greenstein
Guglielmo
Gurman
Haberkorn
Hoskins
Hussein
Hamm
Hardwick
Harrell
Hauptman
Hawkins
Henderson
Hayman
Hibara
Hehmann
Herbst
Hedges
Hogan
Hoffman
Horowitz
Hsu
Huber
Ikiz
Jaroschy
Johann
Jacobs
Jara
Johnson
Kassel
Keegan
Kuroda
Kavanau
Keller
Kevill
Kiew
Kimbrough
Kline
Kossoff
Kotzitzky
Kahn
Kiesler
Kosser
Korte
Leibowitz
Lin
Liu
Lowrance
Lundh
Laux
Leifer
Leung
Levine
Leiw
Lockwood
Logrono
Lohnes
Lowet
Laber
Leonardi
Marten
McLean
Michaels
Miranda
Moy
Marin
Muir
Murphy
Marodon
Matos
Mendoza
Muraki
Neck
Needham
Noboa
Null
O'Flynn
O'Neill
Orlowski
Perkins
Pieper
Pierre
Pons
Pruska
Paulino
Popper
Potter
Purpura
Palma
Perez
Portocarrero
Punwasi
Rader
Rankin
Ray
Reyes
Richardson
Ritter
Roos
Rose
Rosenfeld
Roth
Rutherford
Rustin
Ramos
Regan
Reisman
Renkert
Roberts
Rowan
Rene
Rosario
Rothbart
Saperstein
Schoenbrod
Schwed
Sears
Statosky
Sutphen
Sheehy
Silverton
Silverman
Silverstein
Sklar
Slotkin
Speros
Stollman
Sadowski
Schles
Shapiro
Sigdel
Snow
Spencer
Steinkol
Stewart
Stires
Stopnik
Stonehill
Tayss
Tilney
Temple
Torfield
Townsend
Trimpin
Turchin
Villa
Vasillov
Voda
Waring
Weber
Weinstein
Wang
Wegimont
Weed
Weishaus
