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A map of several branches and degrees of a small social group: Ryan is six degrees of separation from Pablo

Six degrees of separationis the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend"statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as thesix handshakes rule.[1]

The concept was originally set out in a 1929 short story byFrigyes Karinthy,in which a group of people play a game of trying to connect any person in the world to themselves by a chain of five others. It was popularized inJohn Guare's 1990 playSix Degrees of Separation.

The idea is sometimes generalized to the averagesocial distancebeinglogarithmicin the size of the population.

Early conceptions

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Shrinking world

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Theories on optimal design of cities, city traffic flows, neighborhoods, anddemographicswere in vogue afterWorld War I.These[citation needed]conjectures were expanded in 1929 byHungarianauthorFrigyes Karinthy,who published a volume of short stories titledEverything Is Different.One of these pieces was titled "Chains" or "Chain-Links". The story investigated—in abstract, conceptual, and fictional terms—many of the problems that captivated future generations of mathematicians, sociologists, and physicists within the field ofnetwork theory.[2][3]

Technological advances in communications and travel enabled friendship networks to grow larger and span greater distances. In particular, Karinthy believed that the modern world was "shrinking" from this ever-increasing connectedness of human beings. He posited that despite great physical distances between the globe's individuals, the growing density of human networks made the actual social distance far smaller.[4]

As a result of this hypothesis, Karinthy's characters believed that any two individuals could be connected through at most five acquaintances. In his story, the characters create a game out of this notion. He wrote:

A fascinating game grew out of this discussion. One of us suggested performing the following experiment to prove that the population of the Earth is closer together now than they have ever been before. We should select any person from the 1.5 billion inhabitants of the Earth—anyone, anywhere at all. He bet us that, using no more thanfiveindividuals, one of whom is a personal acquaintance, he could contact the selected individual using nothing except the network of personal acquaintances.[5]

This idea influenced a great deal of early thought onsocial networks,both directly and indirectly. Karinthy has been regarded as the originator of the notion of six degrees of separation.[3]A related theory deals with the quality of connections, rather than their existence. The theory ofthree degrees of influencewas created byNicholas ChristakisandJames H. Fowler.[citation needed]

Small world

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Main article:Small-world experiment

Michael Gurevich conducted seminal work in his empirical study of the structure of social networks in his 1961Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD dissertation underIthiel de Sola Pool.[6]MathematicianManfred Kochen,an Austrian who had been involved in urban design, extrapolated these empirical results in a mathematical manuscript,Contacts and Influences,[7]concluding that in a U.S.-sized population without social structure, "it is practically certain that any two individuals can contact one another by means of at most two intermediaries. In a [socially] structured population it is less likely but still seems probable. And perhaps for the whole world's population, probably only one more bridging individual should be needed." They subsequently constructedMonte Carlosimulations based on Gurevich's data, which recognized that both weak and strong acquaintance links are needed to model social structure. The simulations, carried out on the relatively limited computers of 1973, were nonetheless able to predict that a more realistic three degrees of separation existed across the U.S. population, foreshadowing the findings of American psychologistStanley Milgram.[citation needed]

Milgram continued Gurevich's experiments in acquaintanceship networks atHarvard University.Kochen and de Sola Pool's manuscript,Contacts and Influences,[8]was conceived while both were working at theUniversity of Parisin the early 1950s, during a time when Milgram visited and collaborated in their research. Their unpublished manuscript circulated among academics for over 20 years before publication in 1978. It formally articulated the mechanics of social networks, and explored the mathematical consequences of these (including the degree of connectedness). The manuscript left many significant questions about networks unresolved, and one of these was the number of degrees of separation in actual social networks. Milgram took up the challenge on his return fromParis,leading to the experiments reported inThe Small World Problem[9]in popular science journalPsychology Today,with a more rigorous version of the paper appearing inSociometrytwo years later.[10]

Milgram's article made famous[9]his 1967 set of experiments to investigate de Sola Pool and Kochen's "small world problem." MathematicianBenoit Mandelbrot,born in Warsaw, growing up in Poland then France, was aware of the Statistrule of thumb,and was also a colleague of de Sola Pool, Kochen and Milgram at the University of Paris during the early 1950s. (Kochen brought Mandelbrot to work at theInstitute for Advanced Studyand later IBM in the U.S.)

This circle of researchers was fascinated by the interconnectedness and "social capital" of human networks. Milgram's study results showed that people in the United States seemed to be connected by approximately three friendship links, on average, without speculating on global linkages; he never actually used the term "six degrees of separation". Since thePsychology Todayarticle gave the experiments wide publicity, Milgram, Kochen, andKarinthyall had been incorrectly credited as the origin of the notion of six degrees; the most likely popularizer of the term "six degrees of separation" wasJohn Guare,who attributed the concept of six degrees toMarconi.[11]

Continued research: Small World Project

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In 2003,Columbia Universityconducted an analogous experiment on social connectedness amongst Internet email users. Their effort was named the Columbia Small World Project, and included 24,163 e-mail chains, aimed at 18 targets from 13 countries.[12]Almost 100,000 people registered, but only 384 (0.4%) reached the final target. Amongst the successful chains, while shorter lengths were more common, some reached their target after only 7, 8, 9, or 10 steps. Dodds et al. noted that participants (all volunteers) were strongly biased towards existing models of Internet users[Note 1]and that connectedness based on professional ties was much stronger than those within families or friendships. The authors cite "lack of interest" as the predominating factor in the high attrition rate,[Note 2]a finding consistent with earlier studies.[13]

Research

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Several studies, such asMilgram's small-world experiment,have been conducted to measure this connectedness empirically. The phrase "six degrees of separation" is often used as a synonym for the idea of the "small world" phenomenon.[14]

However, detractors argue that Milgram's experiment did not demonstrate such a link,[15]and the "six degrees" claim has been decried as an "academicurban myth".[13][16]

Computer networks

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In 2001,Duncan Watts,a professor atColumbia University,attempted to recreate Milgram's experiment on the Internet, using an e-mail message as the "package" that needed to be delivered, with 48,000 senders and 19 targets (in 157 countries). Watts found that the average (though not maximum) number of intermediaries was around six.[17] A 2007 study byJure LeskovecandEric Horvitzexamined a data set of instant messages composed of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. They found the average path length among Microsoft Messenger users to be 6.[18]

It has been suggested by some commentators[19]that interlocking networks of computer-mediated lateral communication could diffuse single messages to all interested users worldwide as per the six degrees of separation principle via information routing groups, which are networks specifically designed to exploit this principle and lateral diffusion.

An optimal algorithm to calculate degrees of separation in social networks

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Bakhshandehet al.[20]have addressed the search problem of identifying the degree of separation between two users in social networks. They introduced new search techniques to provide optimal or near optimal solutions. The experiments were performed onTwitterin 2011, and showed an improvement of several orders of magnitude over greedy approaches. Their optimal algorithm found an average degree of separation of 3.43 between 2 random Twitter users, requiring an average of only 67 requests for information. A near-optimal solution of length 3.88 could be found by making an average of 13.3 requests.

Popularization

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No longer limited strictly to academic or philosophical thinking, the notion of six degrees recently has become influential throughoutpopular culture.Further advances in communication technology—and particularly the Internet—have drawn great attention to social networks and human interconnectedness. As a result, many popular media sources have addressed the term. The following provide a brief outline of the ways such ideas have shaped popular culture.

Popularization of offline practice

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John Guare'sSix Degrees of Separation

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Main articles:Six Degrees of Separation (play)andSix Degrees of Separation (film)

American playwrightJohn Guarewrote a play in 1990 and released a 1993 film that popularized it; it is Guare's most widely known work.[citation needed]The play ruminates upon the idea that any two individuals are connected by at most five others. As one of the characters states:

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it A) extremely comforting that we're so close, and B) likeChinese water torturethat we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.[21]

Guare, in interviews, attributed his awareness of the "six degrees" toMarconi.[11]Although this idea had been circulating in various forms for decades, it is Guare's piece that is most responsible for popularizing the phrase "six degrees of separation."[citation needed]Following Guare's lead, many future television and film sources later incorporated the notion into their stories.[citation needed]

J. J. Abrams,the executive producer of television seriesSix DegreesandLost,played the role of Doug in the film adaptation of this play.[22]

Kevin Bacon game

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The game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"[23]was invented as a play on the concept: the goal is to link any actor toKevin Baconthrough no more than six connections, whereby two actors are connected if they have appeared in a movie or commercial together. It was created by three students atAlbright Collegein Pennsylvania,[24]who came up with the concept while watchingFootloose.On September 13, 2012, Google made it possible to search for any given actor's "Bacon Number" through its search engine.[25]

Upon the arrival of the 4G mobile network in the United Kingdom, Kevin Bacon appears in several commercials for theEENetwork in which he links himself to several well known celebrities and TV shows in the UK.

John L. Sullivan

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An early version involved former world heavyweight boxing championJohn L. Sullivan,in which people asked others to "shake the hand that shook the hand that shook the hand that shook the hand of 'the great John L.'"[26]

Websites and software

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Internet

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In 2013, Hungarian physicistAlbert-László Barabásidiscovered that, on average, there are 19 degrees of separation between any 2 web pages.[27]

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

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Several "degrees of Wikipedia" web services have been created, which automatically provide the shortest paths between two Wikipedia articles.[28]

Facebook

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Facebook friend distances as reported in Feb 2016[29][30]
Year Distance
2008
5.28
2011
4.74
2016
4.57

A Facebook platform application named "Six Degrees" was developed by Karl Bunyan, which calculates the degrees of separation between people. It had over 5.8 million users, as seen from the group's page. The average separation for all users of the application is 5.73 degrees, whereas the maximum degree of separation is 12. The application has a "Search for Connections" window to input any name of aFacebookuser, to which it then shows the chain of connections. In June 2009, Bunyan shut down the application, presumably for issues with Facebook's caching policy; specifically, the policy prohibited the storing of friend lists for more than 24 hours; following this policy would have made the application inaccurate.[31]A new version of the application became available at Six Degrees after Karl Bunyan gave permission to a group of developers led by Todd Chaffee to re-develop the application based on Facebook's revised policy on caching data.[32][33]

The initial version of the application was built at a Facebook Developers Garage LondonhackathonwithMark Zuckerbergin attendance.[34]

Yahoo! Research Small World Experiment has been conducting an experiment and everyone with a Facebook account can take part in it. According to the research page, this research has the potential of resolving the still unresolved theory of six degrees of separation.[23][35]

Facebook's data team released two papers in November 2011 which document that amongst all Facebook users at the time of research (721 million users with 69 billion friendship links) there is an average distance of 4.74.[36][29]Probabilistic algorithms were applied on statistical metadata to verify the accuracy of the measurements.[37]It was also found that 99.91% of Facebook users were interconnected, forming a large connected component.[38]

Facebook reported that the distance had decreased to 4.57 in February 2016, when it had 1.6 billion users (about 22% of the world population).[29]

LinkedIn

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TheLinkedInprofessional networking site operates the degree of separation one is away from a person with which he or she wishes to communicate. OnLinkedIn,one's network is made up of 1st-degree, 2nd-degree, and 3rd-degree connections and fellow members of LinkedIn Groups. In addition, LinkedIn notifies users how many connections they and any other user have in common.

SixDegrees.com

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SixDegrees.comwas an early social-networking website that existed from 1997 to 2000. It allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances, send messages and post bulletin board items to people in their first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection to any other user on the site. At its height, it had 3,500,000 fully registered members.[39]However, it was closed in 2000. [40]

X

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Users on theX social network(formerly known as Twitter) can follow other users, creating a network of connections. According to a 2010 study of 5.2 billion such relationships by social media monitoring firmSysomos,the average distance on the service that year was 4.67. On average, about 50% of people on the service at that time were only four steps away from each other, while nearly everyone was five steps or less away.[41]

In a 2011 work, researchers showed that the average distance of 1,500 random users on the site was 3.435, at that time. They calculated the distance between each pair of users using all active users.[42]

Mathematics

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Mathematicians use an analogous notion ofcollaboration distance:[43]two persons are linked if they are coauthors of an article. The collaboration distance with mathematicianPaul Erdősis called theErdős number.Erdős-Bacon numbersand Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath (EBS) numbers[44]are further extensions of the same thinking.

Watts and Strogatzshowed that the average path length (APL) between two nodes in arandom networkis equal tolnN/ lnK,whereN= total nodes andK= acquaintances per node. Thus if N= 300,000,000 (90% of the US population) andK= 30 thenDegrees of Separation= APL = 19.5 / 3.4 = 5.7 and ifN= 7,200,000,000 (90% of the world population) andK= 30 thenDegrees of Separation= APL = 22.7 / 3.4 = 6.7. (It is assumed that 10% of population are too young to participate.)

Psychology

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A 2007 article published inThe Industrial-Organizational Psychologist,[45]by Jesse S. Michel from Michigan State University, applied Stanley Milgram's small world phenomenon (i.e., "small world problem" ) to the field ofI-O psychologythrough co-author publication linkages. Following six criteria, Scott Highhouse (Bowling Green State University professor and fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology) was chosen as the target. Co-author publication linkages were determined for (1) top authors within the I-O community, (2) quasi-random faculty members of highly productive I-O programs in North America, and (3) publication trends of the target. Results suggest that the small world phenomenon is alive and well with mean linkages of 3.00 to top authors, mean linkages of 2.50 to quasi-random faculty members, and a relatively broad and non-repetitive set of co-author linkages for the target. The author then provided a series of implications and suggestions for future research.

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Films

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Games

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  • One of the achievements in the video gameBrütal Legendis called "Six Degrees of Schafer", after the concept andTim Schafer,who was presumably in the handful of players to have the achievement as of the game's release. A player can only obtain this achievement by playing online with someone who already has it, further paralleling it to the concept.

Literature

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Music

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Television

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  • Six Degreesis a 2006 television series onABCin the US. The show details the experiences of sixNew Yorkerswho go about their lives without realizing they are affecting each other, and gradually meet one another.[46]
  • Lonely Planet Six Degreesis a TV travel show that uses the "six degrees of separation" concept: The hosts, Asha Gill andToby Amies,explore various cities through its people, by following certain personalities of the city around and being introduced by them to other personalities.
  • TheWoestijnvisproductionMan Bijt Hond,broadcast onFlemishTV, features a weekly sectionDossier Costers,in which a worldwide event from the past week is linked to Gustaaf Costers, an ordinary Flemish citizen, in six steps.[47]
  • Six Degrees of Martina McBrideis atelevision pilotwherein six aspiring country singers from America's smallest towns tried to connect themselves toMartina McBridein under six points of human connection. Those who made it from "Nowhere toNashvilleto New York, "got both a shot at a studio session with McBride and a record deal withSONY BMG.It was not picked up as a series.
  • "Six Degrees of Separation"is an episode of thereimaginedBattlestar Galacticaseries.
  • Six Degrees of Everythingis a comedy series starringBenny FineandRafi Fine,in which they illustrate that everything in the world is connected by a six-degree separation.[48]
  • Jorden runt på 6 stegis a seven-episode infotainment game show produced by Nexiko Media which aired on SwedishKanal 5in 2015. In each episode, hostsFilip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingssonselected one random elderly person (in Bolivia, Nepal, Senegal, Namibia, Mongolia, Madagascar, and Vietnam) and traced their relationships to different celebrities, includingGordon RamsayandBuzz Aldrin,with the goal of doing so in six or fewer degrees of separation, within a time limit of one week.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^"More than half of all participants resided in North America and were middle class, professional, college educated, and Christian, reflecting commonly held notions of the Internet-using population"[12]
  2. ^"suggesting lack of interest... was the main reason" for the "extremely low completion rate"[12]

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    (The above seems to be an article that got "MOVED" to a new URL, and/or got updated... perhaps *both*; so... maybe "SEE ALSO" )

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