火曜日, 10月 03, 2006

Barabasi: The Sixth Link pp.25-35 question

1. What is the principle of six degrees of separation? What number of social links does any one person need to be connected to global society? p. 30

The principle of six degrees of separation is the hypothesis that if you mediate 6 acquaintance, you can be indirect acquaintances all over the world. According to Milgram, people need 5.5 connection.

2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society? p. 31

Of course in the internet society has lots of webpages, but search engine can search the webpage what you want to.

3. How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference?
p. 34

19 degrees. And difference between web and real is the nodes and links.

4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discovered in different kinds of networks? p. 34


5. What does research suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35

The logarithm shrinks the number of node the huge networks, creating the small worlds around us.

6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?

More than 10. Teacher.

1 件のコメント:

Owen James さんのコメント...

Emi, some good work here. The fabric of today's society contains many more stitches connecting it together, overall people have more links to society than in the past.