RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
Finally. Feel like I've been waiting a decade for this paper.
RT @johnhawks: Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of thing…
RT @johnhawks: Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of thing…
RT @johnhawks: Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of thing…
RT @johnhawks: Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of thing…
RT @eblissmoreau: This is a must read if you study the "social brain" or ever cite Dunbar. https://t.co/3dsYWUNFhB
RT @johnhawks: Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of thing…
RT @johnhawks: Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of thing…
RT @johnhawks: Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of thing…
Anthropologists of the 1990s often did pygmy marmoset-to-gorilla regressions across primates to "predict" all kinds of things about extinct hominins. We don't teach this anymore, but the resulting myths are tenacious. One of those is "Dunbar's number". htt
RT @sparrk: Huh, Dunbar’s Number is one of those things I’ve always felt to be intuitively true, but it looks like I need to change my thin…
RT @LesleyNewson: Another nail in the coffin of this strange idea that Robin Dunbar himself didn't seem to take very seriously. But it "wen…
Huh, Dunbar’s Number is one of those things I’ve always felt to be intuitively true, but it looks like I need to change my thinking.
RT @RSocPublishing: ‘Dunbar’s number’ is deconstructed in new #BiologyLetters paper https://t.co/pAfAY70Wcz https://t.co/8OKfFAyT5c
RT @votesforoysters: “…consequences such as the Swedish Tax Authority restructuring their offices to stay within the 150-person limit, with…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @Tash_Reynolds: The Dunbar's number critique (short, sweet, statistical) that I've spent years waiting for. Great work. And open access.…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @Tash_Reynolds: The Dunbar's number critique (short, sweet, statistical) that I've spent years waiting for. Great work. And open access.…
This is important Dunbar number may be a fluke…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
I just love the language of understatement in academic abstracts, like this gem that a 95% confidence interval for Dunbar's Number yields 3.8-292.0. "This is not very informative."
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
Probably, we are able to keep track of and maintain stable relationships with less than 150 people (Dunbar's number) https://t.co/IdX8IkjHId https://t.co/QbGh0SRhee
the Swedish Tax Authority restructured their offices to stay within the 150-person limit Dunbar number "with the implicit but hopefully unintended assumption that their employees have neither family nor friends outside work"
RT @leafs_s: Biology Letters ‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed https://t.co/LMZ5XvgJhv
“…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.”🤣
RT @eohomo: Slightly mad factoid from this new paper in Dunbar’s number! https://t.co/uG7CqMetPu https://t.co/Q9BIYLyzv4
"..with the implicit but hopefully unintended assumption that their employees have neither family nor friends outside of work." 🤣
RT @markvanvugt1: The popular Dunbar’s number - the 150 people upper limit of our social network — revisited and refuted in this recent art…
RT @ProfSimonFisher: “Extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limited value for both theoreti…
Biology Letters ‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed https://t.co/LMZ5XvgJhv
RT @ProfSimonFisher: “Extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limited value for both theoreti…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @ProfSimonFisher: “Extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limited value for both theoreti…
Slightly mad factoid from this new paper in Dunbar’s number! https://t.co/uG7CqMetPu https://t.co/Q9BIYLyzv4
RT @ProfSimonFisher: “Extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limited value for both theoreti…
RT @ProfSimonFisher: “Extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limited value for both theoreti…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @ProfSimonFisher: “Extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limited value for both theoreti…
“Extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limited value for both theoretical & empirical reasons. It is our hope that this study will put an end to use of ‘Dunbar’s number’ within science & in popular me
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
RT @LesleyNewson: Another nail in the coffin of this strange idea that Robin Dunbar himself didn't seem to take very seriously. But it "wen…
RT @Tash_Reynolds: The Dunbar's number critique (short, sweet, statistical) that I've spent years waiting for. Great work. And open access.…
Tch.
RT @Tash_Reynolds: The Dunbar's number critique (short, sweet, statistical) that I've spent years waiting for. Great work. And open access.…
Oh no. The search is on for the next favourite factoid https://t.co/1x7ZFRwzqf https://t.co/DXLON4kV2J
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
RT @Tash_Reynolds: The Dunbar's number critique (short, sweet, statistical) that I've spent years waiting for. Great work. And open access.…
The Dunbar's number critique (short, sweet, statistical) that I've spent years waiting for. Great work. And open access.
RT @RSocPublishing: ‘Dunbar’s number’ is deconstructed in new #BiologyLetters paper https://t.co/pAfAY70Wcz https://t.co/8OKfFAyT5c
Wow
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
RT @RSocPublishing: ‘Dunbar’s number’ is deconstructed in new #BiologyLetters paper https://t.co/YQOzBC2cvC https://t.co/jcut3MxRRV
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
Nice.
Spännande ny svensk analys av mytiskt begrepp om gränserna för hur många sociala kontakter en människa kan hantera. Men vad säger ni som är biologiskt, psykologiskt alt matematiskt bevandrade? https://t.co/26TQ2vXXlL
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
RT @mmjokela: Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence i…
Study re-estimates Dunbar’s number (size of social circle) and its confidence interval: estimate only 69 people, confidence interval from 4 to 292, which is what you get with small samples. Analysis laced with dry humor: https://t.co/Iss2DEMCmM https://t.c
RT @RubinPsyc: Dunbar's number is wrong? How many social relationships can you keep track of? Dunbar (1992) suggested 150 as the upper li…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @RSocPublishing: ‘Dunbar’s number’ is deconstructed in new #BiologyLetters paper https://t.co/pAfAY70Wcz https://t.co/8OKfFAyT5c
It's from this paper, questioning Dunbar's number https://t.co/Nrcqcotk32
RT @nyuprimatology: Dunbar’s number was a wonderful piece of scientific storytelling, but it was never science. Hopefully it might be possi…
RT @mr_sunshine: "‘Dunbar's number’ is a concept with limited theoretical foundation lacking empirical support." https://t.co/5uiAxPqWEB h…
RT @RubinPsyc: Dunbar's number is wrong? How many social relationships can you keep track of? Dunbar (1992) suggested 150 as the upper li…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @RSocPublishing: ‘Dunbar’s number’ is deconstructed in new #BiologyLetters paper https://t.co/pAfAY70Wcz https://t.co/8OKfFAyT5c
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @LydiaMHopper: Love the science & the sass: “extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limit…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @RSocPublishing: ‘Dunbar’s number’ is deconstructed in new #BiologyLetters paper https://t.co/pAfAY70Wcz https://t.co/8OKfFAyT5c
RT @nyuprimatology: Dunbar’s number was a wonderful piece of scientific storytelling, but it was never science. Hopefully it might be possi…
Dunbar's number deconstructed. https://t.co/6FKhUnxBLo
What if it’s like working memory and you can just chunk them into larger and larger groups?
Dunbar's number is wrong? How many social relationships can you keep track of? Dunbar (1992) suggested 150 as the upper limit. A new study argues that a precise cognitive limit cannot be derived. Open Access: https://t.co/eR9af28z8C https://t.co/S0sHK
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @nyuprimatology: Also worth reupping this critical question today: now that analyses have shown that there are as many Dunbar's numbers…
RT @nyuprimatology: Dunbar’s number was a wonderful piece of scientific storytelling, but it was never science. Hopefully it might be possi…
RT @julxf: This: "‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed" | Biology Letters. I hope this paper will get the attention it deserves. Unfortunately,…
RT @Anthrofuentes: "However, enormous 95% confidence intervals (4–520 and 2–336, respectively) imply that specifying any one number is futi…
RT @nyuprimatology: Dunbar’s number was a wonderful piece of scientific storytelling, but it was never science. Hopefully it might be possi…
RT @LydiaMHopper: Love the science & the sass: “extrapolating human cognitive limits from regressions on non-human primate data is of limit…