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4.1 General Data
Over a period of two weeks, the application gathered 14,051 individual responses
from 166 participants, approximately 80 per participant, which overlapped on 588
edges representing 1341 responses, approximately 10% of the total. Participants
were primarily university-age students from English-speaking countries, and
included 84 males and 82 females. Responses were gathered from a random
sampling of each participant's online connections, representing 953,969 possible
connections, with the average participant having 483 friends. The structure of
participant responses is shown graphically in Figure 1.
Fig. 1 (top) The network of data collected is shown. Circles represent individuals. Blue
lines represent individual participant responses (left) Displays weak connections within the
top graph with the weakest in yellow and weak in green (right) Displays strong
connections within the top graph with the strongest as dark blue and strong as light blue
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