G-1SJLD Flying Teams
Last updated: 1 Mar 2017
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Properties
- Order48
- Size0
- Minimum degree2
- Maximum degree26
- Diameter5
- Clique number7
- Connectedtrue
- Arcs353.0
- File size7
- Average degree14.7083
- Strong components2
- Weak components1
- Modes1
- Temporalfalse
- Multirelationalfalse
- Directeddirected
- Realtrue
- Genealogyfalse
- Multiple linestrue
- Weightedtrue
- Minimum weight-1.0
- Maximum weight1.0
- Loopsfalse
This network represents 48 cadet pilots and connections between them in terms of flying partners.
In the network an arc from A to B, with the value of -1 represents a connection where B does not qualify as a flying partner of A (dotted line in the image below), the value of 1 represents the connection where B does qualify as a flying partner of A (full line in the image below).
Background:
In 1943, Leslie D. Zeleny administered a sociometric test to 48 cadet pilots at an US Army Air Forces flying school. Cadets were trained to fly a two- seated aircraft, taking turns in flying and aerial observing. Cadets were assigned to instruction groups ranging in size from 5 to 7 at random, so they had little or no control over who their flying partners would be. The sociometric test was used to improve the composition of instruction groups. Zeleny asked each cadet to name the members of his flight group with whom he would like to fly as well as those with whom he would not like to fly.
Network image:
History:
- Original author: Leslie D. (Day) Zeleny (?1898, President of the Midwest Sociological Society 1939-40, (then) at Iowa State University).
- Data coded into Pajek data files by W. de Nooy, 2001.
References:
- J. L . Moreno (et al.), The Sociometry Reader (Glencoe (Illinois): The Free Press, 1960, p. 534-547).
- W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 4.