Packet 6: Tossup 8

Brian Uzzi and Jarret Spiro argued that models of a “problem” named for this two-word phrase can predict the quality of any Broadway musical. Bassett and Bullmore argue that the robustness of a configuration named for this two-word phrase gave human brains an evolutionary advantage. A property named for this two-word phrase occurs when a network’s mean path length L scales (-5[1])logarithmically with size. (-5[1])Networks named for this two-word phrase (10[1])are generated by (-5[1])randomly “rewiring” (-5[1])regular ring lattices in the Watts–Strogatz model and have many “cliques” (10[1])due to a high clustering coefficient. (10[2])This two-word phrase names an experiment that used (10[1])Wichita (10[2])and Omaha as (10[1])starting (10[4])points (10[2]-5[4])for letters (10[1])to Sharon, (-5[1])Massachusetts. (10[1])For 10 points, what two-word phrase names (10[1])a Stanley Milgram experiment that popularized “six degrees of separation?” ■END■ (10[5]0[2])

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