#7 YY Ahn on How the Friendship Paradox Impacts Your Mental and Physical Health
Listen now
Description
YY Ahn is an Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He investigates questions across a range of fields including sociology, health, economics and culture.  In this episode we: - Discuss what YY learned from analysing LinkedIn's data from 500 million users in 25 years  - Talk about the friendship paradox and how understanding it affects your physical and mental health - Explore YY's research on COVID and counterintuitive approaches to contact tracing
More Episodes
In this episode, I speak with Pat Hiller. She was directly introduced to me by my mother’s friend. This episode covers topics that may be triggering for some people. [TW: SI, mention of su*c*de]. Pat had two, long, loving marriages, the first for more than 30 years and the second one just shy of...
Published 02/13/21
Published 02/13/21
In this episode, I speak with Khusraw Razbaan Ahmadzai. He is a friend and colleague of my partner. Razbaan is a proud dad as well as a network and systems engineer. He spent his early childhood in Kabul, Afghanistan before moving to Islamabad, Pakistan during the civil war in the early 90s. In...
Published 02/06/21