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What is your reference for the average path length within a real social network? Six degrees of seperation?
by onuryavuz 13y ago
What is your reference for the average path length within a real social network? Six degrees of seperation?
- malahay 13y agoYup that's right!
- onuryavuz 13y agoCool. I have a question in my mind that you might answer or comment on. As the social networks and internet usage grow steadily, should we expect a decrease in average path length of a social network? Will "six degrees of seperation" be updated to "X degrees of seperation" in the future where X<6?
- tokenuser 13y agoG'day, I am one of the others who worked on this. Study back in 2011 showed that in Facebook at least, the average degrees of separation was 3.74 (and closer to 2 or 3 for regional connections) ... so as we enter a more digitally connected world, Stanley Milgram's "Smallworld" study (that gave us the original 6 DoS metric) is contracting.