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Trust Propagation in Small Worlds - Gray, Seigneur, Chen, Jensen (2003) (4 citations) (Correct)
....that each human has roughly 300 acquaintances with whom he is on a first name basis. This means that there are 300 people one step away from any given person, 90,000 people two steps away, 27 million people three steps away, etc. This sociological concept is the basis for small world research [4], which describes the tendency for each entity in a large system to be separated from any other entity in the system by only a few steps. Small world research formalises human networking concepts, and gives us standard formulae with which to analyse seemingly random digital networks. We aim to ....
Matthews, R.: Six Degrees of Separation. World Link (2000)
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