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Carrie Crawford's avatar

This could even work for folks online. I would love to read that study. I'm currently working on building community within my neighborhood and this article is a good guide. Thank you.

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Peter Razenberg's avatar

As someone on the spectrum I find 5-0-1 working much better for me. With the last one being either my wife or one of my kids..

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Alicia Williams's avatar

In my life I have consistently struggled to find true support or friendship. My family have traumatized me and taken advantage of my responsibility and work ethic and compassion for them. I am now 47 and make many connections and can't get any consistent friendships, people are too busy for friendship or even conversation. Its terribly lonely. I also cannot find people with integrity that live their values, they are talk and no action. I have always felt like a outlier and a misfit because of this. I care about community and reducing suffering and I can't find others to even discuss solutions with let alone work together to change outcomes. I am at a loss , our culture is so self obsessed.

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Safwaan Mohammad's avatar

Great idea

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David C Morris's avatar

I just read about this study in Charles Duhigg's book Supercommunicators. I shared it with my team as they were gearing up for the launch of their leader development programs this week. We spend a lot of time during the beginning of our programs getting participants to interact with each other outside of class and to work on building professional networks.

Fun Fact - The original ask for the Harvard Study was to identify predictors of job performance in Retail Store Managers. They spent 20 years and $7M in today's dollars before shelving the project only to be picked back up in the 1970s. Had they hired an I-O Psychologist to be part of their team, he or she would have conducted a criterion-related validation study and taken no longer than 6 to 12 months for under $10K.

Today, we can do it much quicker and for much less - just the cost of conducting a good job analysis and plugging the results into a computer to spit out generalized validity coefficients.

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Mikey Ames's avatar

Huh.

Nielsen still hires people with clickers to stand there and count out the number of public impressions that come from outdoor advertisement.

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