Obviously there are large swathes of the global population who are difficult to reach, in any sense, so the 6 degrees of separation idea cannot be 100% true. Also the fact that Milgram had a 95% failure rate is well known; it is not a new revelation. I don't know how much work has been done to determine whether this is simply due to lack of participation, but there are reasonable grounds to believe that the global social networks are to a large degree small world networks.
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:22:34AM -0400, 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. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060715/3c45ab02/attachment.pgp>
