Comments:Microsoft study proves six degrees of separation

Please note that the Kevin Bacon game mentioned in the article was inspired by Erdos numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number

Misleading by it's lack of reality. If this was qualified as "connection to people on the planet who are technologically savvy and have access to the Internet" then it has some legs. How many of the 6+ billion are so qualified? Bangladesh? Sumatra? Science must be based on lucid assumptions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.253.106.128 (talk) 18:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)