Six degrees of separation
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| - | '''Six degrees of separation''' is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "[[friend of a friend]]" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the '''six handshakes rule'''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-10 |title=6 Handshake Rule - Are We Still 6 People Away From Each Other? |url=https://youth-time.eu/6-handshake-rule-are-we-still-6-people-away-from-each-other/ |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=Youth Time Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> | + | '''Six degrees of separation''' is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "[[friend of a friend]]" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the '''six handshakes rule'''. |
| The concept was originally set out in a 1929 short story by [[Frigyes Karinthy]], in which a group of people play a game of trying to connect any person in the world to themselves by a chain of five others. It was popularized in [[John Guare]]'s 1990 play ''[[Six Degrees of Separation (play)|Six Degrees of Separation]]''. | The concept was originally set out in a 1929 short story by [[Frigyes Karinthy]], in which a group of people play a game of trying to connect any person in the world to themselves by a chain of five others. It was popularized in [[John Guare]]'s 1990 play ''[[Six Degrees of Separation (play)|Six Degrees of Separation]]''. | ||
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Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes rule.
The concept was originally set out in a 1929 short story by Frigyes Karinthy, in which a group of people play a game of trying to connect any person in the world to themselves by a chain of five others. It was popularized in John Guare's 1990 play Six Degrees of Separation.
The idea is sometimes generalized to the average social distance being logarithmic in the size of the population.
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See also
- Composition of relations
- Connections, a TV documentary that follows a similar concept but involving history and science
- Erdős number
- Erdős–Bacon number
- Hyperlink cinema
- Jewish geography
- Professional network service
- Shusaku number
- Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
- SixDegrees.org
- Small-world experiment
- Social network
- The Game (mind game)
- The Tipping Point
- Three-click rule
- Six Degrees of Separation (film)
- Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia
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