If you actually read the paper in Sociometry, the success rate was 64 / 296 papers, or 21%. "95% of the letters sent out had failed to reach the target" - Again not true. In fact, I challenge you to find me one single instance of Milgram using this phrase anywhere. It certainly has nothing to do with Milgram's Small World Experiment. "The phrase "Six Degrees of Separation" was coined by Stanley Milgram" - Actually it's been associated with several people, most likely John Guare. I'm sorry, but a number of the claims in this blog entry are simply wrong, and to quite a spectacular degree. It's fascinating stuff (she's also posted a shorter follow up here). Kleinfeld has her journal article detailing the backstory of Milgram's study and her findings about his research here. People are connected by 'six degrees of separation' may be the academic "The pleasing idea that we live in a 'small world' where Target, would you say it was proof of six degrees of separation? So whyĭo we want to believe this?". "If 95 or 97 letters out of 100 never reached their In the most recent, two years ago, only 3% of letters reached their target. According to the BBC, several researchers apparently did similar studies to Milgram's, but those studies all had the same Than solid statistics (much to the dismay of the many the films, playsĪnd books written using Six Degrees as their driving force). If true would mean the whole Six Degrees of Separation thing is more fiction He was famously associated with was not supported by his experiments. Milgram was a giantįigure in his world of research, but here was evidence that the claim In six steps, they failed to get there at all. It turned out, she told us, that 95% of the letters sent Kleinfeld, a professor psychology at Alaska Fairbanks University, wentīack to Milgram's original research notes and found something Separation." But recently, someone looked into his data and didn't like what she saw:
Reported that the average number of people it took to get from the Hands of a person the original sender didn't know in another city.
Name, then he tracked how long it took for each letter to end up in the Milgram asked people to give a letter to other people they knew by Screaming victims (a study that was oddly just repeated). How many would administer potentially lethal electric shocks to Originally conducted the Milgram Shock Experiment, examining people's obedience to authority by testing the famous and controversial social psychologist who
The phrase "Six Degrees of Separation" was coined by inspired by a study by Stanley Milgram
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