junk social science
"Milgram found that most of the letters reached the stockbroker in five or six steps." - Malcolm Gladwell, Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg
"Only 3 of these chains (or 7 1/2%) actually reached the target person; the folder passed through the hands of 8 persons on the average before reaching the target." - Stanley Milgram, Results of communication project (undated). (Available from The Stanley Milgram Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.)
Nice hair, though.