Knowing everyone: Are you a connector?

In "The Tipping Point," author Malcolm Gladwell argues that the success of any kind of social epidemic depends on the involvement of people he calls "Connectors." These are the people who know everyone. 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

Knowing everyone: Are you a connector?

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