The Personal Reaction to the Third Link: "Six Degrees of Separation" of "Linked" by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Barabasi emphasizes that the world is very small by "the highly interconnected nature of these networks" (34). This reality is so different with their impression, so it's amazingly. It can be stated that the explanation of the author is mistaken at least one point, that is, utilizing the statistical mechanics. The reason why utilizing them is unuseful for the explanation is that statisitics are after all within the supposition. Social psychology states that the statistical hypothesis often occurs mistakes, for example, the judgements of DNA for identifying the identical person. In addition, it cannot be the evidence for ninteen degrees of separation in all Web even if "all other networks studied so far display a separation between two and fourteen" (34). The reason why people think so is only caused by human impression, that is, people are apt to believe the examples and apply one result to another case. However, social psychology also shows that the reality and truth is usually very different from human impression. For example, people believe that crimes have been increasing since before, but they have been decreasing since 1950 in the real in Japan. Moreover, other explanations of the author are believable. Thus, after all, it could be claimed that the assertion of the author is the right.