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small-world experiment

Summary

small-world experiment is a social experiment[1]. It draws 165 Wikipedia views per month (social_experiment category, ranking #5 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • small-world experiment's instance of is recorded as social experiment[3].
  • small-world experiment's instance of is recorded as hypothesis[4].
  • small-world experiment's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025tvh6[5].
  • small-world experiment's uses is recorded as average path length[6].
  • small-world experiment's schematic is recorded as Six degrees of separation.svg[7].
  • small-world experiment's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779573214[8].

Why It Matters

small-world experiment draws 165 Wikipedia views per month (social_experiment category, ranking #5 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). small-world experiment. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/small-world-experiment
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_small-world-experiment_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{small-world experiment}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/small-world-experiment}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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