Dear_one wrote:
There must be a range of connections for different people. The more extroverted you are, the lower, and vice-versa.
For the whole planet...socioeconomic status would effect it.
You or I wouldnt likely be only seven steps removed from the average bushman in the Kalihari, or from an average North Korean peasant.
But a jet setting Ivy league grad would know elite alumni of elite schools of the world, and might well be only five steps removed from someone who went to school in the Sorbonne, and who sat next to the young Kim Jong Un in biology class there!