6.13. Self Check

Q-1: What are the characteristics of a small world graph?

• Low clustering and high path length.
• Not quite. Try again.
• High clustering and high path length.
• No, this would not be ideal.
• Low clustering and low path length.
• No, keep trying.
• High clustering and low path length.
• Correct! In a small world graph, things are very clustered and have little space between then, hence their low path length.

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Q-2: All heavy-tailed distributions follow the power law.

• True
• Incorrect, a WS model can be heavy-tailed but they can never follow power law.
• False
• Correct, just because some do that does not mean all do.

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