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That’s the conclusion of new research announced in Science.

Employing the mathematics of network analysis, the team found that communities in which people have more diverse social networks, at least as gauged by their phone calls, also tend to be more prosperous….

Eagle notes that the team has seen a correlation only between greater diversity in social contacts and prosperity. So the researchers cannot tell whether social diversity promotes prosperity or the other way around. “The causality probably works both ways,” Eagle says. He hopes the results will influence public policy officials to consider not just giving aid to poor, insular communities but also finding ways to help people foster relationships with others outside their communities.

Is That Prosperity Calling? – ScienceNOW

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