链接的节点《纽约客》特约撰稿人马尔科姆·格拉德威尔在他的著作《引爆点》中,介绍了一种测试人们社交程度的简单方法。他给出了一个包含248个姓氏的列表—这些姓氏选自曼哈顿电话黄页,然后请被试对照该姓氏列表给自己打分,每认识一个姓氏出现在该列表中的人得一分,可以重复计分。假如列表中有一个姓氏是琼斯,而被试认识三个姓琼斯的人,就可以得三分。格拉德威尔对曼哈顿城市学院的大学生们进行了测试。这些学生大多20岁出头,都是近几年才搬到曼哈顿的,他们的平均得分为 Linked Node New Yorker Contributing Writer Malcolm Gladwell introduced in his book Tipping Point a simple way to test how socially people are. He gave a list of 248 surnames - those surnames were chosen from the Manhattan yellow pages, and asked subjects to rate themselves against the surname list, and each person who recognized a surname in the list scored one point, Minute. If one of the surnames in the list is Jones, and the person who is interviewed knows three Jones, you get three points. Gladwell tested the college students at Manhattan City College. Most of these students are in their early twenties and have moved to Manhattan in recent years. Their average score is