Do You Know Whom You Were with a Week Ago Friday? A Re-Analysis of the Bernard, Killworth, and Sailer Studies

This article presents a social relations (Kenny and La Voie 1984) analysis of the social network data concerning accuracy of interaction recall collected originally by Bernard, Killworth, and Sailer (1980). The social relations model can be used to derive several measures of accuracy at both the individual and the dyadic level. In their original articles, Bernard et al. concluded that informants show virtually no accuracy when reporting interaction patterns