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I just noticed, I am one friend shy of Dunbar’s Number. (Of course, that may change after the comment I made concerning yesterday’s senatorial election.) Dunbar’s Number, according to the anthropologist Robert Dunbar, who was clever enough to name the number after himself, has to do with the size of our brains and the number of people we can keep track of. (Yes, I know: ends in a preposition. But “of which we keep track” is pretty stilted.) Dunbar’s number shows up all over the place. In Malcolm Gladwell’s books. In the size of congregations. In the size of tribes. In the number of Martha Coakley’s friends on the planet earth. There’s also a FaceBook Fan site for Dunbar’s number. So I became a fan. And that made 49. What?
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

oh-oh: dunbar's number

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I just noticed, I am one friend shy of Dunbar’s Number. (Of course, that may change after the comment I made concerning yesterday’s senatorial election.) Dunbar’s Number, according to the anthropologist Robert Dunbar, who was clever enough to name the number after himself, has to do with the size of our brains and the number of people we can keep track of. (Yes, I know: ends in a preposition. But “of which we keep track” is pretty stilted.) Dunbar’s number shows up all over the place. In Malcolm Gladwell’s books. In the size of congregations. In the size of tribes. In the number of Martha Coakley’s friends on the planet earth. There’s also a FaceBook Fan site for Dunbar’s number. So I became a fan. And that made 49. What?

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