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  "edition": "2016 published results with profile distributions recounted in 2026",
  "snapshot": "2015-10",
  "presentation_updated": "2026-10-01",
  "sources": [
    "blogs/zhihu-social-network-analysis-1-basic-statistics.md",
    "blogs/zhihu-social-network-analysis-2-follow-network.md"
  ],
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    "Network metrics, influence rankings and topics are historical published aggregates. Profile distribution bins were recounted from the verified archive; see recovered_distribution.",
    "Thresholds use lifetime upvotes strictly greater than 10000 or 50000.",
    "Path lengths concern the largest strongly connected component only.",
    "Topic counts concern question tags of answers by a dominating set, not all users.",
    "Net10k article heading says Top 20 but contains 30 entries; all 30 are preserved.",
    "A name absent from a published Top 5 has unknown rank, not zero score."
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        "en": "Upvotes",
        "zh": "赞同"
      },
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      "median": 96,
      "sd": 21951.4,
      "image": "../../blogs/assets/images/zhihu-social-network-analysis-1-basic-statistics/00f1ff1973384535f7e563c7f4f6c40b.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "follower",
      "label": {
        "en": "Followers",
        "zh": "粉丝"
      },
      "mean": 3620.0,
      "median": 112,
      "sd": 22978.5,
      "image": "../../blogs/assets/images/zhihu-social-network-analysis-1-basic-statistics/050ad934cdeeb42a6e4254c2a5bfc0e7.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "followee",
      "label": {
        "en": "Following",
        "zh": "关注"
      },
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      "median": 67,
      "sd": 565.9,
      "image": "../../blogs/assets/images/zhihu-social-network-analysis-1-basic-statistics/0e9fb639f073982a4ec83bf87624b5c8.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "answer",
      "label": {
        "en": "Answers",
        "zh": "回答"
      },
      "mean": 68.9,
      "median": 17,
      "sd": 225.9,
      "image": "../../blogs/assets/images/zhihu-social-network-analysis-1-basic-statistics/0da612aae06c05311108e3538672d62a.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "thanks",
      "label": {
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        "zh": "感谢"
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      "image": "../../blogs/assets/images/zhihu-social-network-analysis-1-basic-statistics/4d11a4526f33ef3f3dcae9e3d1e5139d.jpg"
    }
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      "giant": 1853,
      "distance": 2.11,
      "diameter": 5
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      "id": "Net50k",
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      "distance": 1.85,
      "diameter": 4
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        },
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        {
          "name": "马伯庸",
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        {
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          "name": "张佳玮",
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        {
          "name": "马伯庸",
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        },
        {
          "name": "采铜",
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        },
        {
          "name": "谢熊猫君",
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        }
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        },
        {
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          "name": "ZENHO",
          "score": "0.00953"
        },
        {
          "name": "Edison Chen",
          "score": "0.00885"
        },
        {
          "name": "徐湘楠",
          "score": "0.00798"
        }
      ]
    }
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        "en": "Survey questions",
        "count": 3792
      },
      {
        "name": "生活",
        "en": "Life",
        "count": 3096
      },
      {
        "name": "历史",
        "en": "History",
        "count": 1713
      },
      {
        "name": "恋爱",
        "en": "Dating",
        "count": 1464
      },
      {
        "name": "心理学",
        "en": "Psychology",
        "count": 1432
      },
      {
        "name": "电影",
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        "count": 1419
      },
      {
        "name": "人际交往",
        "en": "Social relationships",
        "count": 1404
      },
      {
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        "en": "Society",
        "count": 1332
      },
      {
        "name": "互联网",
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        "count": 1214
      },
      {
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      },
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        "en": "Politics",
        "count": 1028
      },
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        "name": "两性关系",
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      },
      {
        "name": "教育",
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        "count": 897
      },
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        "name": "中国",
        "en": "China",
        "count": 823
      },
      {
        "name": "人生",
        "en": "Life choices",
        "count": 815
      },
      {
        "name": "游戏",
        "en": "Games",
        "count": 805
      },
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        "name": "文学",
        "en": "Literature",
        "count": 772
      },
      {
        "name": "知乎",
        "en": "Zhihu",
        "count": 772
      },
      {
        "name": "法律",
        "en": "Law",
        "count": 750
      },
      {
        "name": "音乐",
        "en": "Music",
        "count": 738
      },
      {
        "name": "爱情",
        "en": "Love",
        "count": 699
      },
      {
        "name": "文化",
        "en": "Culture",
        "count": 659
      },
      {
        "name": "创业",
        "en": "Entrepreneurship",
        "count": 628
      },
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      },
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        "name": "程序员",
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      },
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        "name": "女性",
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      },
      {
        "name": "编程",
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        "count": 585
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      },
      {
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      },
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      },
      {
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      },
      {
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      },
      {
        "name": "编程",
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