-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Colin Davis wrote: > "The pleasing idea that we live in a 'small world' where people are > connected by 'six degrees of separation' may be the academic equivalent > of an urban myth," she says.
Interesting program - thanks for the link. A bit more detail about Kleinfeld's criticisms: http://www.uaf.edu/northern/big_world.html Milgram's experiments were replicated a couple of years ago using email. The completion rate was very low, but they used the length of completed chains to estimate the length of uncompleted chains and came up with a median of 5-7 degrees of separation: http://smallworld.columbia.edu/images/dodds2003pa.pdf Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEugZnyua14OQlJ3sRAiyWAKDtwLIlXMsGxL8foyYN4MbBiDKoFwCeISje OMRIdvTKu1xWW0luAKO3eMQ= =vBgX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
