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   Small world experiment

   The small world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States.
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   Stanley Milgram

   While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept), and while at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority.
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   Small world

   Small world may refer to: ... Small world experiment, bringing evidence to the theory that every person is linked by a short chain of social acquaintances
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   Small-world network

   Constructing such small-world networks is done as part of the effort to find graphs of order close to the Moore bound. ... Small world experiment
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   Small world routing

   In the case of Milgram's original small-world experiment, participants knew the location and occupation of the final recipient and could therefore forward messages based on those parameters.
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   Six degrees of separation

   Small world ... Several studies, such as Milgram's small world experiment, have been conducted to empirically measure this class='fact'>connectedness.
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   Social network

   The concept gave rise to the famous phrase six degrees of separation after a 1967 small world experiment by psychologist Stanley Milgram.
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   Duncan J. Watts

   Small world experiment ... "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks.".
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   Erdős number

   Small-world network Small world experiment
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    Jon Kleinberg

    Kleinberg is also known for his work on algorithmic aspects of the small world experiment. ... "Navigation in a small world".

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• Stanley Milgram,
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• Six degrees of separation,
• Social network,
• Duncan J. Watts,
• Erdős number,
• Jon Kleinberg