Colombiana4Life wrote: Salsagal wrote: It is said that everyone in the world is connected by only six people. That is 1 in 6 people know some one that knows someone and on and on....................... Just in this foro somehow it is true. I believe it is No, Colo, for you and Zipote is more like -0.00000000000000012 degrees of separation. If you were any closer to the every single person in Toronto, you would have possessed everyone by now.
Anyways. LMAO. You know quite a bit of people too, its just that you keep it more on the DL. Good for you
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Salsagal wrote: It is said that everyone in the world is connected by only six people. That is 1 in 6 people know some one that knows someone and on and on....................... Just in this foro somehow it is true. I believe it is
No, Colo, for you and Zipote is more like -0.00000000000000012 degrees of separation. If you were any closer to the every single person in Toronto, you would have possessed everyone by now.
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In the 1950s, Ithiel de Sola Pool (MIT) and Manfred Kochen (IBM) set out to prove the theory mathematically. Although they were able to phrase the question (given a set N of people, what is the probability that each member of N is connected to another member via k1, k2, k3...kn links?), after twenty years they were still unable to solve the problem to their own satisfaction. In 1967, American social psychologist Stanley Milgram (see Small world phenomenon) devised a new way to test the theory, which he called "the small-world problem". He randomly selected people from various places in The United States to send postcards to one of two targets: one in Massachusetts and one in the american Midwest. The senders knew the recipient's name, occupation, and general location. They were instructed to send the card to a person they knew on a first-name basis who they thought was most likely, out of all their friends, to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until it was delivered to the target himself. Although the participants expected the chain to include at least a hundred intermediaries, 80% of the successfully delivered packages were delivered after four or fewer steps. Almost all the chains were less than six steps. Milgram's findings were published in Psychology Today, and his findings inspired the phrase six degrees of separation. Playwright John Guare popularized the phrase when he chose it as the title for his 1990 play. Milgram's findings were criticized, however, because they were based on the number of packages that reached the intended recipient, which was only about one third of the total packages send out. Further, many claim that Milgram biased the experiment in favor of the successful delivery of the packages by selecting his participants from a list of people likely to have above-average incomes, and thus not representative of the average person. It has been theorised that six is less representative of the true distance between people than of the maximum length a chain can be sustained without breaking down. Six degrees of separation became an accepted notion in pop culture after Brett C. Tjaden published a computer game on the University of Virginia's Web site based on the small-world problem. Tjaden used the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) to document connections between different actors. Time Magazine called his site, The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia [1], one of the "Ten Best Web Sites of 1996". Similar programs are still used today in introductory computer science classes to illustrate graphs and linked lists. In 2001, Duncan Watts, a professor at Columbia University, continued his own earlier research into the phenomenon and recreated Milgram's experiment on the Internet. Watts used an e-mail message as the "package" that needed to be delivered, and surprisingly, after reviewing the data collected by 48,000 senders and 19 targets (in 157 countries), Watts found that the average number of intermediaries was indeed, six. Watts' research, and the advent of the computer age, has opened up new areas of inquiry related to six degrees of separation in diverse areas of network theory such as power grid analysis, disease transmission, graph theory, corporate communication, and computer circuitry.
Salsagal wrote: It is said that everyone in the world is connected by only six people. That is 1 in 6 people know some one that knows someone and on and on....................... Just in this foro somehow it is true.
I don't think that's my case .....Nobody on this foro really knows me or knows about me , that they claim to know me es otra historia......
It is said that everyone in the world is connected by only six people. That is 1 in 6 people know some one that knows someone and on and on....................... Just in this foro somehow it is true.
I believe it is
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It is said that everyone in the world is connected by only six people. That is 1 in 6 people know some one that knows someone and on and on....................... Just in this foro somehow it is true.
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