来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第16集 第16集》

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  Gladwell recounts another experiment done by Stanley Milgram,
  他详述了斯坦利·米尔格拉姆的另一个实验
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  of course famous for his obedience work but he did a lot of interesting things.
  当然米尔格拉姆因服从实验闻名 但他也做了很多有趣的事
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  And one classic study he did was he gave a package to 160 people randomly chosen
  在一项经典实验中 他将包裹给从内布拉斯加州的奥马哈人中
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  in Omaha, Nebraska and he asked these people to get the package somehow
  随机挑选的一百六十人 然后让这些人无论如何将包裹送给
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  and this was many years ago before the internet,
  这在很多年前 还没有因特网
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  before e-mail?To get the package to a stockbroker who worked in Boston
  没有电邮 要将包裹送到一个在波士顿工作
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  but lived in Sharon, Massachusetts.
  却住在马萨诸塞州雪伦市的股票经纪人
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  What he found was that most people were able to do it.
  他发现大多数人竟然做到了
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  Nobody, of course, knew this man
  当然没有人认识这个人
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  but they knew people who might know people who would know this man.
  但他们认识那些可能认识这个人的人
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  So, most people succeeded. Most people were able to get the packages to this man
  所以大多数人成功了 大多数人都能将包裹送至这个人
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  and it took at maximum six degrees of separation,
  这就是六度分隔理论