Six degrees
Bas
Broekhuizen, 8th August 2003
Perhaps
a good idea for the Good people from the
previous weblog entry: forget all the jobboards and get onto RealContacts. Word of mouth is much more
effective than writing job application letters. The bigger your network,
the more people and therefore the more chances of a job. And now there is a network
that spans the globe.
They have reflected on this
in New Zealand. RealContacts is based on six degrees of separation,
the theory that two random world citizens have no more than six intermediate social
contacts. The idea originated with the American psychologist Stanley Milgram (founder
of the Milgram experiment),
and is the basis of other websites. Applied to The Internet Movie Database, the theory appears
to be correct. An electronic
experiment from Columbia University must definitively silence the critics.
