Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist who posited that human beings can only maintain familiar relationships with about 150 people. Commonly known as 'Dunbar's number'.
People often claim, on this basis, that a close-knit village can't be bigger than that number. But that's not really how community […]
I think of the Dunbar number almost as often as I think about confirmation bias.
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If you need name tags, your organization is too big to directly understand.
#confirmationbias #dunbarnumber #humanscancounttoseven
You can’t scale trust. You can’t hack friendship.
The Dunbar number is real—and we’re out here trying to maintain 300 “connections” with 3 spoons of energy.
🎧 We talk friendship, identity & influence in the digital age.
#DunbarNumber #FriendshipCrisis #CommunityCare
There's a cognitive ceiling where connection becomes performance and intimacy dissolves into metrics. Robin Dunbar claims to know. Read more in the latest issue of The Thought: thethought.writtenself.com/p/150
#psychology #dunbarnumber #humanconnection #socialcognition #thoughtprovoking #writing
This is just the #DunbarNumber.
So, every country with over 300-400 inhabitants is, on average, a 'country of strangers'.
Prove me wrong: Every single social problem in the world can be traced to failures in individual responsibility resulting from violation of the #DunbarNumber ie, no social entity-agency grouping should contain more than 150 individuals.
#books #booklist #bookstagram #booktalk #booktok #greatbooks #greatbooksguide #recommendedreading #brainawarenessweek #brainawareness #dunbarnumber
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Text describing the membership of the Rochdale Pioneers Coop
I’m doing a bit of reading on the history of #coops. Interesting to see that initially the #RochdalePioneers limited their membership to 250 members to ensure democratic participation. Fits well with #DunbarNumber theory.
Massive 2009-era Twitter nostalgia, stumbling onto here and straight into old friends like @lloyddavis.bsky.social & @solobasssteve.bsky.social. And remembering the guy on the original Twitter dev team who told me they almost restricted it to 140-followers as well as 140-chars. #dunbarnumber
New Publication: #UF student Fergus Keatinge in Social Networking http://bit.ly/1PetKPo #SocialNetwork #DunbarNumber @UF @UFExplore
this video on #loneliness, the #dunbarnumber and social networking by @Shimi1622 is a perfect visual companion to @alaindebotton's tweets
@hakontandberg Dersom Facebook er din jevne landsby, er Twitter ditt jevne kongedømme? (Friends vs. Followers?) #dunbarnumber
