You know what somebody should do? Re-run the Milgram chain letter experiment again, and over time. This is the other one, the experiment where he made an estimate of social distance between two people: asked Alice to get a chain letter to Bob by sending it to one of Alice's acquaintances "on a first-name basis", asking that person to do the same.
Has the mean number of hops changed over time? Has the distribution broadened? Run it with two people chosen uniformly from the whole population[1], versus pairs chosen to be same or different in, say, urban/rural location, race, class. Which social divide is the biggest one, and how have their sizes changed over time?
(I came for the historical data, but I'd stay for data today about distribution and size of social divides. How hard would this really be to run?)
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Has the mean number of hops changed over time? Has the distribution broadened? Run it with two people chosen uniformly from the whole population[1], versus pairs chosen to be same or different in, say, urban/rural location, race, class. Which social divide is the biggest one, and how have their sizes changed over time?
(I came for the historical data, but I'd stay for data today about distribution and size of social divides. How hard would this really be to run?)