What was the conclusion reached by Stanley Milgram following his small group phenomenon experiment involving "starters" and "targets"? What is the major criticism of the results reached by Milgram?

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The conclusion of Milgram's experiment was that, on average, just six individuals separate everyone in the United States from knowing everyone else. The critics of Milgram point out that some of the individuals Milgram used as "starters" and "targets" had a mutual interest in the stock market, which tainted the results. When Milgram's research was replicated, the "starters" were successful in reaching their "targets," on average, only 30 percent of the time with some success rates as low as 5 percent. In the replicated studies, only 384 of 24,000 "targets" were eventually reached by the "starters."