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    The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social...
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  • 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. His other small-world experiment, while at Harvard, led researchers to analyze the degree of connectedness...
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    the challenge on his return from Paris, leading to the experiments reported in The Small World Problem in popular science journal Psychology Today, with...
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    Small-world network example Hubs are bigger than other nodes A small-world network is a graph characterized by a high clustering coefficient and low distances...
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  • General Electric SmallWorlds, a 3D virtual world aSmallWorld, an internet network Small-world experiment, a series of social network experiments conducted by...
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    and Bacon. Small-world experiment Morphy Number, connections via chess games to Paul Morphy Shusaku number, equivalent in the Go world with Honinbo...
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    The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between...
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  • following examples: the midnight ride of Paul Revere, Milgram's experiments in the small world problem, the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" trivia game, Dallas...
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  • geographic location, IP address, etc. In the case of Milgram's original small-world experiment, participants knew the location and occupation of the final recipient...
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  • including the small-world experiment, the lost-letter experiment, the street-corner (or gawking) experiment, the familiar stranger experiment, and various...
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    Stanford prison experiment (SPE), also referred to as the Zimbardo prison experiment (ZPE), was a controversial psychological experiment performed in August...
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    aspects of the small world experiment. He was one of the first to realize that Stanley Milgram's famous "six degrees" letter-passing experiment implied not...
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    Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to...
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    double-slit experiment demonstrates that light and matter can exhibit behavior of both classical particles and classical waves. This type of experiment was first...
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    inter-connectedness of all people Small-world experiment – Experiments examining the average path length for social networks Small-world network – Graph where most...
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    Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There...
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    A thought experiment is an imaginary scenario that is meant to elucidate or test an argument or theory. It is often an experiment that would be hard,...
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    The Miller–Urey experiment, or Miller experiment, was an experiment in chemical synthesis carried out in 1952 that simulated the conditions thought at...
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    mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat in a closed box may...
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  • The Jewish geography game can be seen as a form of testing the small-world experiment, Stanley Milgram's research into the probability that two randomly...
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    demonstrated by Italian experimenters a few decades earlier. According to the story, Galileo discovered through this experiment that the objects fell with...
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  • The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists learned that every atom has a nucleus where all of its...
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  • put an end to the experiment that now threatens the fate of the entire world. The film was released on August 3, 1984 by New World Pictures, and received...
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  • The following is a list of historically important scientific experiments and observations demonstrating something of great scientific interest, typically...
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    The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space...
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  • Stitch, also known as Experiment 626 (pronounced "six two six"), is a fictional character from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise. A genetically engineered...
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    sequence of sexual contacts is important. Bugchasing Contact tracing Small world experiment Social network Liljeros, Fredrik; Christofer R. Edling; Luis A....
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    attracted attention for his modern-day replication of Stanley Milgram's small world experiment using email messages and for his studies of popularity and fads...
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  • alien. Stitch (Experiment 626) is one of the two title characters of the Lilo & Stitch franchise. Originally an illegal genetic experiment created by mad...
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    World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...
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