--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- Tom Pall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > snip > > > > 20 years ago > > > > some social > > > > psychologists wanted to find out how interrelated > > > > people were. They > > > > addressed envelops to certain people, from nobodies > > > > to US senators and > > > > famous people. They gave the envelopes to people > > > > and told them to > > > > give them only to people they knew and have those > > > > people give the > > > > envelopes only to people they knew. The researchers > > > > found that there > > > > was an average of 3 people between any two other > > > > people in the US. > > > > The number of people inbetween ranged from 0 to 10. > > > > > > This is actually a social psychology fallacy. This was > > > a very poor quality study done with a flawed > > > methodology that gave rise to this social myth. > > > > > > > The myth is that you can be even remotely sure of the number. In > some > > circles its 0 to 3 degrees of seperation. In other circles, its > > probably more than a dozen. > > > In grade 1 in the first reading primer I had, I read about Bunga the > Pygmy. I wonder how many degrees of separation there are between > us...
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