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Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon – washingtonpost.com
With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances.

I’ve heard the phrase a number of times and thought it interestingly possible. It might actually be 7 degrees (6.6), but it’s a networking phenom that reminds us that the world is smaller than it feels sometimes.

HT: Gene Edward Veith

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