| Six degrees of Separation |
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| Thursday, 04 January 2007 05:59 | |||
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As everybody close enough to me knows is that I love to know something about just about anything. So as u can guess....once I had heard this "Six Degrees of Separation" term, I just had to know about it. So I got myself surfing around and found out that it stands for a scientific theory about interconnectedness of human beings and has been derived from an expriment conducted by Stanley Millgram in the 1960's. It simply shows that through a maze of relationships any two random individuals can be linked to each other by an average length of pad of about 6 people. Thus having an interconnected world in which any node can reach any other node in a chain which averages about 6 links. A pretty amazing theory as we now even see the internet growing in the same manner. Sites like www.hyves.nl and www.myspace.com are great ways of seeing the theory act in practice. Although myspace lacks the functionality, on the hyves website you can actually see through whom you are connected to each other node. This is ofcourse a very good way of testing the theory as an amature.
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