Saturday, August 2, 2008

Six degrees of separation a possibility: researchers

Researchers at Microsoft say the popular belief that everyone on the planet can be linked by a string of six acquaintances is statistically almost exactly right.

The company analysed the senders and recipients of 30 billion instant messages over a month.

They established that any two strangers could be linked by an average string of 6.6 relationships.

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