Six Degrees? In Kurzform lautet die These, dass jeder Mensch mit einem anderen Menschen über bis zu sechs Ecken miteinander in Beziehung steht. Mehr oder minder ruhen sämtliche Social Networks auf diesem Grundgedanken. „Irgendwie vernetzt sein“.
Nun hat Microsoft den MS Messenger, der von Millionen Usern genutzt wird. Also hat man sich die Daten geschnappt und eine Auswertung gefahren (die Losgröße ist gigantisch), ZDNet dazu:
The compressed dataset occupies 4.5 terabytes, composed from 1 billion conversations per day (150 gigabytes) over one month of logging,“? according to the researchers. The dataset which was collected in June 2006 contains summaries of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. And they were very surprised to find that the average number of jumps to get from one random user to another was 6.6.“? This is very close to the old „six degrees of separation“ idea which states that everyone on Earth is six „steps“ away from anyone else. … The dataset contains summary properties of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. From the data, we construct a communication graph with 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges, creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date
Aha, nicht six degrees, sondern seven degrees:)
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We also find that people tend to communicate more with each other when they have similar age, language, and location, and that cross-gender conversations are both more frequent and of longer duration than conversations with the same gender
genauergesagt: in female“male conversations, 7.6 messages are exchanged per conversation on the average as opposed to 6.6 and 5.9 for female“female and male“male, respectively. Also, dass Männer länger brauchen, um sich mit dem weiblichen Geschlecht zu verständigen… tststs… immerhin, auch diese Untersuchung zeigt es auf:)
Die Studie könnt Ihr Euch als PDF runterladen: Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network
