• Question: Is it true there are six degrees of relegation between all humans

    Asked by Finn to Barbara, Matt, Ravinder, Sophie, Tristan on 13 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Matthew Moore

      Matthew Moore answered on 13 Mar 2015:


      No! and yes.

      The six degrees of separation statistic is really cool and certainly makes sense! A facebook campaign was even set up to attempt to prove it before (I don’t recall the results).

      Statistically it’s sound but all it takes is for one group of humans somewhere to be completely isolated (and this is true, there are completely un-contacted tribes in the Amazon) and it means that its claims are false unfortunately. Otherwise it does actually work!

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