Scientists have proved the strong connection of mothers and daughters with the help of mobile conversations
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Recent studies have shown that the frequency of contact between individuals is a reliable indicator of the emotional connection between them. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in that the data on calls on the mobile phone - a fount of information about the social life of people.
Alas, the analysis of this information has so far not yielded any remarkable results. For example, the location of a subscriber during a phone call showed the intricacies of his route. Hardly for some it was a revelation.
Only now something good has appeared. Vasil Palchikov of the University of Aalto (Finland), Albert-Laslo Barabashi from the Northeastern University (USA) and Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford (UK) studied data on calls between 1.4 million women and 1.8 million men from an unnamed European country . Subscribers called each other almost 2 billion times and sent somewhere half a billion SMS. Scientists have at their disposal also information about the age of these people, which makes it possible to understand how the number of calls varies with age.
Researchers began by determining which subscriber called most often, who was in second place and so on. The first received the title of best friend, the other - the second best friend, etc. It turned out that in 18-40-year-olds "best friend" and in men and women more often had the opposite sex (of course, this is the most reproductive age). "Second best friend" - the same gender as the subscriber.
Women of these years paid more attention to relations with the opposite sex than men. After the end of the reproductive period, they switched to individuals who were younger than them for about a quarter of a century. Experts suspect that these are their daughters, who started to bring their grandchildren. Men at this age evenly "smear" the attention between "friends" of both sexes - probably do not distinguish between sons and daughters.
Judging by these data, the socialization of women depends more on the possibility of producing offspring. Up to forty ladies are actively looking for a sexual partner (or his psychological equivalent, let's call it so), and then included in the education of grandchildren. In other words, they all grow up somebody's life. Men also refer to this "philosophically".
This confirms the hypothesis of evolutionary biology that the main role in social relations is played by the connection of mothers and daughters, while the connection between men and women, fathers and sons is not so strong.
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