Certainly this does cast Milgram's original experiments into doubt, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Anyway, we have done our own experiments using social network data and found good results, so even if there is something to this article, it doesn't really cause me to worry about Freenet's effectiveness. Ian. On 15 Jul 2006, at 08:22, Colin Davis wrote: > Just to keep on top of Popular opinion- > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/more_or_less/5176698.stm > > "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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
