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BBC NEWS | Technology | Study revives six degrees theory August 22, 2008

Posted by kieslinger in : news , trackback

As a few agencies have reported recently, a team of researchers at Microsoft seems to have repeated Milgram’s small world experiment from which he drew his concept of “Six Degree’s of Separation”, namely that each person on the globe is connected to each other via approximately six contacts or links.

According to the news the researchers at Microsoft were basing their experiment on Microsoft Messenger users. They might never have reached me then ;-)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Study revives six degrees theory

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