Dunbar and ideal group sizes

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Validation of Dunbar's Number in Twitter Conversations

4 users will acquire more and more friends, but the number of replies that they send to other users will increase con- sisten tly only in stable social inte racti ons.
Kurzbeschreibung We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colors our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are.

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Amazon.de: Robin Dunbar: Englische Bücher

http://www.amazon.de/Many-Friends-Does-Person-Need/dp/0571253423
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point 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 .

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Group Sizes and the Internet

Christopher Allen

Distributed, dynamic terrorist networks cannot scale like hierarchical networks.

THE OPTIMAL SIZE OF A TERRORIST NETWORK - Global Guerrillas

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/security_group.html If the size of your company grows past 150 people, it's time to get name badges.

on Security: Security, Group Size, and the Human Brain

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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.
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http://www.liv.ac.uk/researchintelligence/issue17/brainteaser.html 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.

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The ‘Path’ to Social Network Serenity Is Lined With 50 Friends | Epicenter | Wired.com

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?

Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, specializing in primate behavior. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number, roughly 150, a measurement of the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships". Professor Dunbar is a director of the British Academy Centenary Research Project (BACRP) "From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain" and is involved in the planned BACRP "Identifying the Universal Religious Repertoire".
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 - (37signals)

Dunbar's numbers for ideal group size. | Leading Leaders - Identity Based Leadership

From a single person to group sizes of over 1000 people, the ideal number of people in any group is becoming quite a science.