Critically discuss Milgram’s experiment, and assess the extent to which the “small-world effect” can be found in the random Poisson network, in the Barabási-Albert “scale-free” network, and in the Watts-Strogatz “small-world” network.

Social Network Analysis – Small world Network, Scale free, random Poisson network

The experiment that Stanley Mil-gram conducted in 1967 provided empirical evidence in favor of what is now referred to as the “small-world effect”, namely the fact that the average geodesic distance is small even for very large networks.

Critically discuss Milgram’s experiment, and assess the extent to which the “small-world effect” can be found in the random Poisson network, in the Barabási-Albert “scale-free” network, and in the Watts-Strogatz “small-world” network.