Some interview-research was done in a high school and relationships (romantic and sexual) over eighteen months were mapped out. The researchers went in with one hypothesis and came out with an interesting discovery. Here’s the map and here’s the story.
“We went into this study believing we would find a core model, with a small group of people who are sexually active,” Moody said. “We were surprised to find a very different kind of network…”
The most striking feature of the network was a single component that connected 52 percent (288) of the romantically involved students at Jefferson. This means student A had relations with student B, who had relations with student C and so on, connecting all 288 of these students.