The term "six degrees of separation" came out of research undertaken by Stanley Milgram,who wanted to test:
A) how social chains operate in organizations.
B) how strangers meet at cocktail parties.
C) the reach of social networks.
D) the number of steps people take before landing in prison.

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Stanley Milgram's research was aimed at testing the reach of social networks and how connected individuals were to one another. He conducted experiments in which participants had to send a message to a target person, but could only forward it to someone they knew personally. Milgram found that, on average, it took only six "degrees of separation" (i.e. forwarding the message through six intermediaries) for the message to reach the target person. This became known as the "six degrees of separation" phenomenon, and has been widely studied in sociology and other fields.

The Term "Six Degrees of Separation" Came Out of Research