Editing Small-world experiment (section)

====Data Collection====
The study involved diverse groups of participants from different social settings, aiming to compare various types of social networks. The researchers asked participants: to estimate how many intermediaries would be needed to connect them to a randomly chosen person, to list and categorize their acquaintances, including professional, familial, and casual relationships and to assess how well they could predict social distances.
The key differences from Milgram’s experiment were: the reverse tracking of connections rather than relying on participants' ability to forward messages. An emphasis on estimating social ties, rather than simply measuring completion rates of message chains. An analysis of clustering patterns, determining whether certain groups (e.g., work colleagues vs. family) were more effective in forming short chains.