Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More » Send Feedback | Web History | Help | Sign in Home Home Profile People Photos Collections Communities Events Hangouts Pages Settings Feedback Help · Region Privacy · Terms · Maps Terms Start a hangout Richard Green Mathematics Richard Green Shared publicly - 2015-07-03 Why your friends, on average, have more friends than you do The friendship paradox is the observation that your friends, on average, have more friends than you do. This phenomenon, which was first observed by the sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991, is mathematically provable, even though it contradicts most people's intuition that they have more friends than their friends do. Wikipedia gives a nice intuitive explanation for this phenomenon: People with more friends are more likely to be your friend in the first place; that is, they have a higher propensity to...