Dunbar was an anthropologist, not a neuroanatomy researcher, and Dunbar's Number was an ethnographical observation, not a biological one.

"Your social life has a biological limit: 150. That’s the number—Dunbar’s number, proposed by the British psychologist Robin Dunbar three decades ago—of people with whom you can have meaningful relationships."

#IanBogost, 2021

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/

That's your opening? Not off too a great start there Ian.

#DunbarsNumber

@sam_liban , gern.

Abschließend noch ein kurzer Selbsttest: Wie viele Menschen in Deinem direkten familiären, privaten und beruflichen Umfeld - also maximal #DunbarsNumber - leben Deiner Meinung nach in einer verengten Bubble?

@bstacey @DarlavdRiet @JamesGleick @ftrain Even if #DunbarsNumber exists, it’s not clear it means much? As #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow wrote, it’s not just modern cities or sports teams that have stretched far beyond any supposed limit. Native Americans or Australians would long ago travel half a continent to hang out with fellow clan members they weren’t related to and hadn’t met. Dunbar hasn’t limited humans for millennia, if he ever did.

@crasher35 @samir @realn2s max practical size of primate tribes incl #HomoSapiens #DunbarsNumber ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number This is overcome in some ways by cities and complex human societies

Came across some research challenging the famous Dunbar's Number theory. Had a little giggle at this sassy sentence:
"[Dunbar's number] has had consequences such as the Swedish Tax Authority restructuring their offices to stay within the 150-person limit, with the implicit but hopefully unintended assumption that their employees have neither family nor friends outside work."

#psychology #psychologyresearch #dunbarsnumber #community #sassy

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0158#:~:text='Dunbar's%20number'%20is%20the%20notion,other%20individuals%20in%20the%20group.

TIL #DunbarsNumber - a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships :coffeepals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

@yair @hananc @ftrain I wonder whether #Dunbarsnumber is a topic again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

“One thing seems certain: we need to pass beyond the information scaling threshold. This means finding new ways to think together with the internet. And a future where we own our second brains seems brighter than one where we don’t.”

— Thinking together, @gordon

https://subconscious.substack.com/p/thinking-together

#subconscious #noosphere #secondbrain #coase #dunbarsnumber

@atomicpoet @rysiek And if you have one million followers, how can you possibly interact with them all in a meaningful way?

#DunbarsNumber is about 150 people...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

@atomicpoet @rysiek And if you have one million followers, how can you possibly interact with them all in a meaningful way?

#DunbarsNumber is about 150 people...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number