Quickie Review: Connector qualities
Class activities & discussion
Chapter 2 of The Tipping Point.
Play a game of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Discuss: how does the game apply to Gladwell's description of connectors?
Try it again with a different actor. Does Kevin Bacon work for this game better than other actors? Why or why not?
Gladwell gave a test to test the number of people a person may know:
(1) people are given a random selection of last names from what source?
(2) a typical score comes in around what number?
(3) few people score over what number?
(4) Who do you know that you would consider a connector? Why?
Origins and history of chain letters
How do they apply to Gladwell’s definition of connectors?
Play a game of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Discuss: how does the game apply to Gladwell's description of connectors?
Try it again with a different actor. Does Kevin Bacon work for this game better than other actors? Why or why not?
Gladwell gave a test to test the number of people a person may know:
(1) people are given a random selection of last names from what source?
(2) a typical score comes in around what number?
(3) few people score over what number?
(4) Who do you know that you would consider a connector? Why?
Origins and history of chain letters
How do they apply to Gladwell’s definition of connectors?
Homework
Review the study guide for tomorrow's test on The Tipping Point, Ch. 1 & part of 2.
Study guide topics
- 80/20 Principle
- Basic facts about Gaeton Dugas
- Basic facts about Gladwell’s method for testing the number of people a person might know
- Basic facts about Kitty Genovese’s murder & the bystander effect
- Basic facts about Mark Alpert
- Basic facts about Roger Horchow
- Basic facts about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
- Basic facts about the British invasion in 1775, Paul Revere
- Cause of the spike of syphilis cases in Baltimore
- Human immunodeficiency virus = HIV
- Stickiness factor: cigarettes
- Three classes of people within the Law of the Few, in order, esp. Connectors
- Three rules of epidemics in order