Actually, it’s 6.6 Degrees

“Microsoft has studied a total of 30 billion instant messages sent by over 250 million people in June of 2006, and determined that we are in fact, all linked by only 6.6 degrees of separation.”http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/08/are-we-really-s.html

Of course, the most important question: did they solve for Bacon?

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2 Responses to “Actually, it’s 6.6 Degrees”

  1. spider Says:

    the bacon term was left off the equation for fear of… frying the computer.

    wait, gotta take that one back into the shop for a bit.

    This reminds me of this site which maps the connectedness of Wikipedia, most articles are connected to all others by four jumps.

  2. Pixelpixie Says:

    What they didn’t consider is the that a significant number of subjects only send text messages to vote for their favorite American Idol… ;)
    It is an interesting concept and yet continues my on going confusion of why there are racial prejudices if we are all so intertwined biologically and socially. I guess some people fear the different and unique… sigh…

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