Friday, June 19, 2009

Research Questions

Recently, I have started focusing on the "cultural impacts on social media". Somewhat related to this, I was reading an essay on " Is there anything good about men?" @ http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm . (Although, the essay is 39 pages long but is very good read)

In the essay, the author talks about men and culture. Where, I could find some parallels with some concepts in economics (The concept of Comparative advantage ) I could relate from the essay that men had/have an edge because of comparative advantage over women. (not because they are more intelligent but of the nature of social network they have)


Research question: Among men/women who is more/less vulnerable on social networks because of the nature of their social networks. (large and shallow vs small and intense)

Moreover, I was just wondering that, if concepts of International trade are applied within a nation, where every individual is treated as a nation and a comparative advantage could be computed. So, people choose professions accordingly and increase the overall productivity of a culture or nation. (However that might be the natural course of action for a society)