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Tue, 11/22/2011 - 3:50pm

Scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in the world is not six but 4.74.

Senh: I see only one flaw in using Facebook to do this study: that is people who are on Facebook are inherently more connected than those who are not online. If you mixed in the offline world, then it's probably closer to six.

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