This is when you're most popular, according to science

Frankly: why would anyone even bother publishing this garbage?<p>It&#x27;s obvious that &quot;popularity&quot; != cell phone call record frequency. (Note that age is a severe confounder -- the 50 year-olds in the study most likely did not even have cell phones at age 25...)

&gt;&gt; This is when you&#x27;re most popular, according to science<p>One study == &quot;according to science&quot;

&gt; They found that the average number of people a person calls (or is called by) in a given month peaks around age 25.<p>Number of people you call == how popular you are. How out of touch with the times...

Consider the following confounding variables:<p>Having children might reduce the number of people you spend time with.<p>I have a few other ideas (finding a spouse also cuts down on the amount of time you spend out looking for one), but that&#x27;s the big idea.<p>I wish they would run the numbers adjusting for parenthood.

They analysed one year of phone records for a phone company. And basically what they found was that 25 year olds actually talk to a wider variety of people than other age groups... Not popularity. Not how many friends one has, and not how large one&#x27;s social circle is.<p>I&#x27;ll agree with the others, completely out of touch and a weird click-bait headline.<p>Does this stuff actually matter past school? If so, I&#x27;m doing life wrong.

&quot;in most cases, people focus their (phone-based) social effort each month on around 15 people&quot;<p>15 people??? Jeez! I had a hard enough time keeping up with 5!

How come the graph for &quot;Everyone&quot; is not in between of Men and Women?

&gt;You&#x27;re never more popular than you are at age 25.<p>&gt;Researchers analyzed one full year&#x27;s worth of cell phone call records for 3.2 million customers of a European telecom company. They found that the average number of people a person calls (or is called by) in a given month peaks around age 25. After that, your number of regular social connections nosedives until age 45 or so. Take a look.