Using data from the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging network, researchers have concluded that "any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation." [more inside]
posted by Knappster on Aug 2, 2008 - 29 comments

Six n+1 degrees of separation. Stanley Milgram's famous six degrees of separation a fraud? Judith Kleinfeld thinks so. (1, 2)
posted by loquacious on Sep 12, 2006 - 50 comments