Can Men and Women Be Friends? Evidence from 1.3 Trillion Facebook Connections

A phenomenal new paper by Bailey, Johnston, Kuchler, Kumar and Stroebel offers unprecedented insights into gender relations through an extraordinary dataset of 1.38 trillion Facebook connections.

A phenomenal new paper by Bailey, Johnston, Kuchler, Kumar and Stroebel offers unprecedented insights into gender relations through an extraordinary dataset of 1.38 trillion Facebook connections. Their analysis of 1.8 billion users reveals a key aspect of my forthcoming book - where men’s honour depends on women’s seclusion, cross-gender friendships are rare, female employment is low, and patriarchy is widely supported. So let’s dig into this data. Below, I combine this ginormous dataset with my research on global cultural evolution to reveal how Facebook friendships reflect historic…

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