What makes you think you're so popular? Self-evaluation maintenance and the subjective side of the "friendship paradox"

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Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks (2010, background): “This strategy exploits an interesting property of human social networks: on average, the friends of randomly selected people possess more links (have higher degree) and are also more central to the network than the initial, randomly selected people who named them.(14-18) Therefore, we expect a set o”
The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph (2011, background): “, it is conceptually more appropriate to frame the comparison relative to the median of their friends, psychologizing the question as a matter of asking what one’s ‘class rank’ is amongst one’s peers [34]. Our ﬁnding with regard to the median is therefore perhaps more signiﬁcant: we observe that 83.”