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Wow the bar is open -- Mac is back...... :woot
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Xstream
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with mac, the bar is always open.  |
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| mariclaire wrote: |
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I'm moving to Canada.  |
Don't do it -- they have S.A.R.S. up there right now! |
I hate to tell ya'...but...it's here too...heard it on the news the other night...and spreading rapidly... 
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This is scary mostly bc it proves true to the 6th degree of seperation.
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Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:08 pm |
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| This is scary mostly bc it proves true to the 6th degree of seperation. |
Okay...you gonna have to explain that concept John...apparently one from your recent studies...not known to the many...But...you have my curiosity peaked...
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mariclaire
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Uh-oh John has peaked Michel's curiosity. What else is peaking Michel? In case anyone gets lost, this innuendo is from another thread...  |
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Oh you've never heard of that?
Well I picked it up from this forum back on MSN actually, but yes, it's been re-broght up in my books.
All people are seperated by the 6th degree of seperation.
An experiment was designed to see if randomly selected starter-people from all walks of life would be able to find a target-person using only a network of friends. Two separate studies were done, in both cases the target-people were in Cambridge, MA. The starting cities were Omaha,NB, and Wichita, KA.
About 150 people were selected from each of the cities and given a document folder that contained the following:
The name and address and some personal data on the target-person.
A set of rules. The most important of which was: "if you do not know the target-person on a firstname basis, then pass the document folder on to one friend that you feel is most likely to know the target. That friend must be someone you know on a first-basis."
3 A roster. Each person who got the folder had to put their name on the list. This served to show who it came from and also kept the folder from making any loops.
4. Tracer cards. Each person who transmitted the folder had to fill out and mail the tracer card.
The results: It took a median of 5 intermediate friends to go from the starter to the target person.
The range was from 2 to 10.
Milgram reports some other interesting things learned from the study but I will leave that to the interested reader.
Basically you can start ANYWHERE on earth, and there are 6 people between that person, and YOU no matters who you choose.
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Hmmm...just goes to show you...what a small world it really is...and how closely we are all connected...  |
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