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Structural Polarization: Why Signed Social Networks Invert at the Hub Level

Slashdot and Epinions both show INVERSION under IRDME hub-focusing: r(friend, foe) = +0.37 at the full network but flips to -0.36 at the top 1% of users. Social polarization is structurally visible only at the hub level, not at the population level. Confirmed in two independent pre-registered experiments.

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