Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
march 2009 by uggedal
This all leads me to hypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for creative and technical groups -- as opposed to exclusively survival-oriented groups, such as villages -- hovers somewhere between 25-80, but is best around 45-50.
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march 2009 by uggedal
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