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What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

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Duncan J. Watts

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Born: February 20, 1971 (age 54)
Bio: Duncan James Watts is a sociologist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, New York City known for his work on small-world networks.
Known for:
  1. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (2003)
  2. The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (2006)
  3. Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks (2014)

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