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- databasecowboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Actually the original experiment only measured the connectedness of people in a Midwest college town and Boston. The participants, I believe in Kansas, were given envelopes to be delivered to people in Boston with the stipulation that they had to be passed off to other people that could get the letter closer to the destination and had to be hand delivered.
Each time the envelopes were passed off the name of the next holder was added. After all the envelopes were delivered it was calculated that on average it was passed through six people, thus 'six degrees of separation.'
So the experiment only shows the degrees of separation between a Midwest College town and Boston, not the degrees of separation between everyone in the world as is so commonly misused with the term 'six degrees of separation.' Later the term was assigned to Bacon as a parlor game and later a database experiment..
Malcolm Gladwell points out a more interesting aspect of the experiment to be that many of the envelopes passed through the same people showing that some people are more connected than others. - cody50, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I thought the six connections thing was only for Kevin Bacon.
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Anyone on myspace can be connected to some abitrary slut through a chain of top 8 friends that has no more than 3 intermediaries." - MC Plus+
- psych0fish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not if you delete him.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Orkut is not an accurate depiction of reality.
- kwisatzhaderach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree with databasecowboy, though a couple of subtle points regarding the original experiment:
a) only 20% of the total attempts to reach Boston were successful.
b) the test was somewhat biased as the person whom everyone had to contact was a prominent Boston doctor. - RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11True story:
The server at a local pizza works with a cook. The cook's uncle was a writer for Walker Texas Ranger. The uncle knew Chuck Norris. In other words, Chuck and I are practically best friends :) - OfficialJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A Chuck Norris bodyguard is someone who watches over the dead bodies Chuck leaves behind until they are claimed by family.
- rsunilbabu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I heard of this 3 years ago...I tried to manually verify this on orkut."IF" you are connected to a person its definately under 6 but some times there is no connection at all.
- geekuskhan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4So is this experiment going to show me th 4 ppl between me and Jessica Alba?
- cap11235, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6No. Everyone on MySpace is connected by one person: Tom.
- varske, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/more_or_less/5176698.stm. Apparently 95 percent of the envelopes used in the original test not only failed to reach another member of the group but failed to get anywhere. It's really an urban myth. Though I would like to believe it, myself.
- inkogneeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Chuck Norris needs a bodyguard?
- grouchyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4back off... i'm only 3 away so i win. and i saw her first.
- Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My best friend's uncle was Chuck Norris' bodyguard in the late 70s-early 80s timeframe. now he's a criminal defense attorney...
anyway, you and I are practically brothers! - Matic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1facebook has proven that there are only 3 degrees of separation
- redandgold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1actually, it's on ABC
http://abc.go.com/primetime/schedule/2006-07/sixdegrees.html - victorp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1OH! he mentioned Fox digg him down for god sakes /sarcasm
- thatkidandy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2the strength of a network is really dependent on the strength of large 'hubs'
for example you can get to a hell of a lot of places on the internet in just 6 'clicks'
thats because hubs like google have a MASSIVE number of links and connections
its pretty interesting stuff, check out the book "Linked" by Albert-László Barabási for more - Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1When I go on LinkedIn, I see I'm connected to all kinds of people, almost none of whom I know or particularly care to, so -- what's the point?
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26 Degrees ...it's a show on Fox???
I digress... - niallconnellan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Isn't Chuck Norris Just as funny though!
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