Together with some anthropologists, you are studying eight small villages along
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Question
Together with some anthropologists, you are studying eight small villages along one side of a river as shown in Figure 1. Suppose each village has 10 people, a total of 80 people in the eight villages. After interviewing all of them, you find that people within each village have strong ties among each other, as well as with all people in neighboring villages; all villagers have weak ties to the next village (at distance two from their own village); they don't know the people further along the river. So for example, people in the 4th village, have strong ties to people in their own village, as well as to people in the 3rd and 5th village along the river; have weak ties to people in the 2nd and 6th village, but don't know the people in the 1st, 7th and 8th village at all. Do these relations satisfy the Strong Triadic Closure property? Provide an explanation for your answer.Explanation / Answer
Yes, the relationships follow triadic closure property. It exists between three nodes. If we consider 4,3,5. 4 is having
strong ties with 3 and 5. 3 and 5 are two villages apart and hence they have weak ties as per the information given in the question. Triadic closure property requires either weak or strong ties between 5 and 3.