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Marissa King

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  1. “Exactly. In our work, we found that that social function accounted for about 30% of the increase in prevalence. So there's certainly other things that are going on that are actually increasing like true prevalence in the population, but a big part of what was actually identification and destigmatization.”

    2021-03-16 · Invest Like the Best · Marissa King - The Science of Social Networks - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 217] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Had the exact same signature. And so, what I was interested in is what was happening on the ground, and much of what actually was happening was simply increase in awareness or a greater understanding of the ability to identify that was actually happening from parents talking to other parents. And that word of mouth contagion was really critical for explaining why you see this rapid increase in prevalence. And if you look over time, you'll see that exact same social signature in lots of different things that seem like they're being contagious, but it's actually just the social networks or social dynamics that are allowing for greater identification that are really driving that phenomenon.”

    2021-03-16 · Invest Like the Best · Marissa King - The Science of Social Networks - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 217] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “We shift back 15 or 20 years and think about what was happening during that time is you saw just a rapid escalation in the prevalence of autism, which is a very individual level disorder. So you're seeing really almost exponential growth in the number of kids in particular who are being diagnosed. But what was also surprising about this finding is there was a huge amount of variance geographically in where you're seeing cases. So in some neighborhoods and communities, you would see this rapid escalation and then in others nothing really was happening. And as you start to think about that, there's lots of things that could help explain this. It could have been an environmental toxicant. There are lots of things that could be happening at the local level. But what I knew from someone who studies health and contagion and diseases is that there's also something that's very peculiar about the social signature, the rate of growth. So if you look at the same thing, if you see product and marketing going viral.”

    2021-03-16 · Invest Like the Best · Marissa King - The Science of Social Networks - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 217] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Problem here's another problem. Post lots of policy solutions, but I also wanted to offer at the individual level what's something that we all can do in our day-to-day life to help whether you're struggling with mental health issues or trying to help support someone struggling with addiction.”

    2021-03-16 · Invest Like the Best · Marissa King - The Science of Social Networks - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 217] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “My career trying to investigate and understand why we see things that look like large scale social epidemics that are actually very individual in origin. So if you begin by thinking about the autism epidemic, which is where I started to thinking about mental health medication use, anxiety, depression, and more recently, substance abuse disorders, I spent a lot of time documenting like, why do we see these large scale things that look like epidemics, even though we know that they're not contagious? What underlies all of those phenomenon is that our individual level behaviors aggregate through social networks and then cascade to create large-scale societal shifts. And what happened over time is we can't see signature after signature of the same social signature across a wide range of contexts. And what I realized is what's common to all of these or what's one commonality is just a lack of social connection. Eventually I got sick of pointing out here's the problem, here's another.”

    2021-03-16 · Invest Like the Best · Marissa King - The Science of Social Networks - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 217] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source