Key Terms… Break up or not? spouse: esposo(a) break up: separar ↲ claiming to have: alegando ter ↲ accurately : precisamente ↲ in danger: em perigo sets: grupos ↲ Close friends: Amigos íntimos embeddedness: “incorporado/embutido”-tude buddies: amigos ↲ kickball league: kickball liga ↲ Relatives: Parentes the most overall accurate metric: o mais preciso métrico de todos Facebook researchers are trying to predict when you and your spouse will break up A Cornell professor and a senior Facebook engineer are claiming to have developed a Facebook algorithm that can accurately identify who you’re dating and, especially for new relationships, whether you’re in danger of breaking up. The algorithm depends on a new metric the researchers are calling “disperson,” which looks at connections between people who have different sets of friends. Close friends are likely to share a lot of friends in common, which social scientists call “embeddedness.” But people in romantic relationships tend to connect each other to different spheres: for example, a husband is likely to introduce his wife to his work friends, college buddies, and members of his kickball league, with whom she may not have any other connections in common. Relatives may also show this same “dispersion” dynamic, the researchers say. Dispersion turned out to be the most overall accurate metric
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Key Terms…
Break up or not?
spouse: esposo(a)
break up: separar↲
claiming to have: alegando
ter
↲
accurately: precisamente↲
in danger: em perigo
sets: grupos↲
Close friends: Amigos
íntimos
embeddedness:
“incorporado/embutido”-tude
buddies: amigos↲
kickball league: kickball liga↲
Relatives: Parentes
the most overall accurate
metric: o mais preciso
métrico de todos
Facebook researchers are trying to
predict when you and your spouse
will break up
A Cornell professor and a senior Facebook engineer are
claiming to have developed a Facebook algorithm
that can accurately identify who you’re dating and,
especially for new relationships, whether you’re in
danger of breaking up.
The algorithm depends on a new metric the researchers
are calling “disperson,” which looks at connections
between people who have different sets of friends.
Close friends are likely to share a lot of friends in
common, which social scientists call “embeddedness.”
But people in romantic relationships tend to connect
each other to different spheres: for example, a husband
is likely to introduce his wife to his work friends, college