`Six Degrees’ Theory Faces New Scientific Inquiry: “‘The empirical evidence suggests that we actually live in a world deeply divided by social barriers such as race and class,’ not one ‘of elegant mathematical patterns where a random connector can zap us together,’ she wrote in the journal Society. Milgram’s study ‘really doesn’t test the idea that anyone on Earth can reach anyone else through a handful of intermediaries,’ she said. And Watts, she said, is making the same mistakes by recruiting ‘people who own or have access to computers and are better off, are predominantly of one race and centered greatly in North America.’”