You mean something like "
6 degrees of Bacon"?
If they could establish an accurate comparative baseline for each individual or small group (whew!), it
might yield a small part of a bigger puzzle.
IIRC, science cannot do this on a small scale accurately yet.
If the first reading step is not done correctly, all that follows should be suspect.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned. I still would like a little accurate HUMINT in the mix when available.
After we do all of this data mining, who's determining if said culled data is significant? I hope for our sake they are very good at that task.
