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Created: July 19, 2002
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Six Degrees of Separation

Teaching Essay Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, July 2002.
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The Question: On average, how many degrees apart is any one person in the world from another? Question by B. Sherwin. Provo, Utah.

The Expert's Answer: "Duncan J. Watts, an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University and author of the forthcoming book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Norton, 2003), is the principal investigator of the ongoing Small World Research Project."

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