Dr Duncan Watts, the principal investigator for the Small World Research Project (looking at online social networks) was interviewed by Odyssey on WBEZ back in February as part of an hour-long program about network theory. He said in the course of conversation that his results so far suggest that contrary to popular belief (and my own preconceptions), social networks (at least in his experiment) are pretty egalitarian – the most well-connected people are not as important to the overall network as he thought. I don’t see any links to published results on the Small World site, though – has anyone heard any more about what he found?
5 June 2003
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Hi dude, I´m here from Brazil.
Surfing on the net I found your blog.
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Comment by Engenhoso Fidalgo — 7 June 2003 @ 11:51 pm
Six degrees PLUS a Power Law
This piece in Nature Magazine is actually more interesting than it appears at first. More than six degrees separate us – Perception and motivation influence social networks. “An e-mail experiment has confirmed the famous ‘six degrees of separation’ of …
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