Each person who received the chain letter would do the same, until a friend or acquaintance of the stockbroker finally received it and would send it directly to him. He sent letters to 160 people in Nebraska, giving them the name and address of a stockbroker in Boston and instructing them to write their name on the letter and then send it to a friend or acquaintance who might get the letter one step closer to that stockbroker. In the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted the “small-world experiment” to research how closely people are connected. The “six degrees of separation” theory starts with Stanley Milgram. The Tipping Point explains how social epidemics - spreading ideas, messages, behaviors, and products - function like viruses, growing gradually until they reach a critical mass (the tipping point) and explode. Social epidemics are aided by the “six degrees of separation” theory. How do you spark a trend that spreads like wildfire, or turn a product into the latest must-have item? You create a social epidemic.
We’ll cover the origins of the “six degrees of separation” theory, look at a 6-degrees-of-separation example, and see how the theory is connected to Malcolm Gladwell’s idea of “connectors.” The “Six Degrees of Separation” Theory The idea was popularized by the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” The six degrees of separation theory is the idea that every person in the world is connected to every other person in the world by a chain of family members, friends, or acquaintances that number no more than 5 people. What is the “six degrees of separation” theory? What does it say about how we’re connected? What is a 6 degrees of separation example?
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