About the Authors

Samuel Arbesman

arbesman@hcp.med.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory Laughlin

Affiliation Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA GL. Performed the experiments: SA. Analyzed the data: SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA GL. Wrote the paper: SA GL.