“A long-observed social phenomenon suggests that people across the globe are separated by surprisingly few connections. Credit: Stock” (ScitechDaily, Scientists Prove There Are Just Six Degrees of Separation in a Social Network)
“In a networked world, we are about six steps away from another individual. In the world of the Internet. That means six clicks separate us from any person who uses the internet. This is one of the most incredible ideas. The idea dates back to 1967. Harvard psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment. He sent letters to random people and then asked them to send those letters to their closest friends. This is a classic chain letter experiment. And of course, Milgram asked. People. Those who participated in that network test wrote their names on that paper. The idea was that Milgram wanted to know how far a random person was from Milgram. Most of those letters never return. But in letters. Those that returned were about five to six names. Before they returned to the hand of Milgram.
This means that there are approximately six people between members of the same network. This causes an interesting thing about networks. People can be members of the same networks. But they ever. Head of each other. And this causes. The situation that we all know. Some people might say that somebody. That person knows, knows that third-party person, or knows somebody who has that name. Those people don’t necessarily know the person. But they know the name.
“Milgram concluded from his small-world experiments that any two random people in the United States would be linked by a chain of (on average) six steps.” (Wikipedia, Small-world experiment)
In that image, the balls are people who are not involved in the chain. But those people transmit information to their own networks. The same models are used to track the origins of the epidemics. Or, those models can also be used. To track. Things like drug dealers. When some outside actor transfers information into their own networks. That causes a situation where information spreads to global networks.
“The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. The research was groundbreaking in that it suggested that human society is a small-world-type network characterized by short path lengths. The experiments are often associated with the phrase "six degrees of separation", although Milgram did not use this term himself. (Wikipedia, Small-world experiment)
But then. We can think. About the networks and their problem. When we think that we all have two or three good friends, we must understand. A couple of things. In information networks, “friend” is not necessarily. The individual person. The friend is the thing. There, we share information. We all have more than just two relationships. If we think that we are three actors, who tell everything to each other. We forget. We can think that humans have two hands. They might all have two connections. Those two close friends are only one connection. And then we have the connection. None of our three people ring knows. When we share information with those outsiders that causes a situation, that information starts to spread in the network.
Things like married people can use or look at each other’s Facebook accounts. The “Friend” can also be some group. Like a soccer team discussion forum. If we have two trusted fiends in the information network, we often forget that those fiends also have two trusted friends. But there is a possibility that those people or groups. That we think of as “fiend”. Might not know each other. So we might know those two people. But maybe one or both know some third-party member. This third-party member. Is the thing. That causes information to spread through the network. In the networked world. We don’t know. Who really is the person we see on the net? People can claim. That they are even the Secretary General of the U.N.
The model. That. Between every user of the net. Cause interesting thoughts. Six clicks. Separate us from the biggest chiefs in the business world. Six clicks separate us from a serial killer. And six clicks separate us from secret agents and drug dealers. This means. That the secret agent, the biggest boss, the serial killer, and the drug dealer. They are always part of our networks. This causes an interesting thought.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-prove-there-are-just-six-degrees-of-separation-in-a-social-network/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment
