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reading a paper that uses the common sociological measure of network diversity as the of different occupations in which a person has a social tie.

eg, do you have a social tie with someone who is a: teacher, lawyer, janitor, engineer, executive, waiter, artist, investor?

wdyt it would be for us and/or crypto twitter?

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The same, no?  Network diversity is the diversity of people you have a tie with.

You can play around with this (ie not just occupation, but gender, language, location and not just direct tie but 2nd degree), but it feels similar for a social network.

For blockchain (tech) networks it would be different.

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Yes I agree.  If we took a typical crypto person’s network diversity as stated above, I think we’d get a small number compared to other groups.  Philosophically the measure still makes sense, though.

Maybe I misunderstood - was the original question how we could measure this with more granularity in crypto?

i think crypto's network diversity is actually rather small; there's a surprising amount of people who spend the majority of their social interactions interacting with other people who work in crypto (at least the people who are online often)