Connecting with people in six steps(BBC)

Stanley Milgramの"six degrees of separation"理論を否定する話。6段階を経れば，知り合いに手紙が届くってことはない。

Judith Kleinfeld, a professor psychology at Alaska Fairbanks University, went back to Milgram's original research notes and found something surprising.

It turned out, she told us, that 95% of the letters sent out had failed to reach the target.

デタラメに基づき，いろいろな話が出ていたけど，あれは何だったのか。みんなエセなのか？

"The pleasing idea that we live in a 'small world' where people are connected by 'six degrees of separation' may be the academic equivalent of an urban myth," she says.

都市伝説はいいね〜。Don't　be　Evilの世界がどんどん胡散臭くなる。