Summary: Scientists used mathematics to explain the social phenomenon of six degrees of separation.Their work suggests that the balance between the cost and benefit of maintaining social connections shapes the global human social network. According to their findings, individual efforts to optimize their social connections result in an average of six steps between any two people.This explains why ideas, trends, and even diseases can spread globally within a few transmission steps.Key Facts:The research suggests that our universal six degrees of separation results from individuals trying to balance the costs and benefits of their social connections.The researchers discovered that this balance tends to form a social network where everyone is approximately six steps away from each other, confirming Stanley Milgram’s original “small world” experiment.This study shows that our connected world enables rapid spread of ideas, trends, and diseases, but also creates a platform for global collabor...
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