Dunbar and ideal group sizes
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"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic." - Kevin Federline
What is the Monkeysphere?
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference ( ISBN 0-316-31696-2 ) is a book by Malcolm Gladwell , first published by Little Brown in 2000 .
The Tipping Point
Group Sizes and the Internet
Christopher Allen
Distributed, dynamic terrorist networks cannot scale like hierarchical networks.
THE OPTIMAL SIZE OF A TERRORIST NETWORK
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Rule of 7: The Ideal Work Group Size | BNET
In the movie The Magnificent Seven , a group of crusty gunfighters led by Yul Brynner successfully protects a small Mexican village from desperadoes. The movie itself is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai . As it turns out, seven is a great number for not only forming an effective fictional fighting force, but also for task groups that use spreadsheets instead of swords to do their work.
Relative to their body size, monkeys, apes and humans have unusually big brains. It has been suggested that this reflects the complexity of their social lives. This hypothesis is gaining support thanks to ground-breaking research by a University of Liverpool scientist, whose methods have been taken up by primate researchers around the world.
University of Liverpool - Research Intelligence - Issue No 17 - The ultimate brain teaser
The ‘Path’ to Social Network Serenity Is Lined With 50 Friends | Epicenter
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25247" title="path_grabs" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/business/2010/11/path_grabs3.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="471" /> Three ideas lurk behind Path, a new social service that launches Monday as an iPhone app.
Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
Bio Robin Dunbar Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, specializing in primate behavior.When you’ve got a small group, you don’t need to constantly formalize things.
If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature