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For the purposes of their experiment, two people were considered to be acquaintances if they had sent one another a text message. The researchers looked at the minimum chain lengths it would take to connect 180 billion different pairs of users in the database. They found that the average length was 6.6 steps and that 78 percent of the pairs could be connected in seven hops or less.
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A lot to think about here, but I only have time for a quick comment.
You said "Luckily, I’ve got plenty of smart folks here to learn from and with. We should all be so lucky." Well, in many ways, given our ability to create, join or even just passively observe learning networks, aren't we all so lucky?
Oh, also wanted to mention how pleased I am that you've been blogging again the last month or two.
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@Bill - Yes, your thoughts definitely make sense. Although I would quibble with one point - I think we always should've been teaching our students to look for bias, even when we supposedly had better validation.
I think a lot of our issues in this new information landscape stem from all of us assuming for a long time that "respectable" sources have been giving us correct and unbiased information. I'm not suggesting any conspiracy theories here, just that bias is a natural part of this and we should be alert to it.
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