The LJ friends exports have both outgoing and incoming links. However, for a user on the fringe (like avva in the previous posts), I don't have data for all of the people he's connected to. So if I import all of the data, it looks as if each one of avva's friendofs has only one outgoing link--the one to him.
If I only use the outgoing links in the LJ friends data, I get an entirely different picture.
Unfortunately, that looks really biased as well; all the top scorers are my LJfriends. Here's the top 25 again:
user rank 1 tsenft 2.864640 2 sillyape 1.837850 3 brad 1.344791 4 evan 1.289011 5 holyloki 1.235474 6 patrick 1.127457 7 mobley 1.080410 8 elliptic 1.064162 9 sleepsucks 1.039973 10 whitaker 1.004112 11 faith 0.951336 12 four 0.907252 13 jeffr 0.896390 14 klayzen 0.856345 15 hellarad 0.788394 16 goldfischegirl 0.777827 17 jag 0.760783 18 nefarious 0.751266 19 postmortal 0.723877 20 lisa 0.707124 21 meenk 0.688035 22 atypical_gnu 0.659139 23 yiyi 0.645266 24 wraincloud 0.609160 25 chris 0.589686
Needs more thinking.