{"id":1737,"date":"2006-12-09T11:44:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T16:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2006-12-09T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T18:36:12","slug":"monkeysphere-surpassable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/monkeysphere-surpassable\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeysphere surpassable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nwlink.com\/~timelvis\/uploaded_images\/monkeysphere-731509.jpg\" alt=\"Monkeysphere\" align=left \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liv.ac.uk\/researchintelligence\/issue17\/brainteaser.html\">Robin Dunbar<\/a> proposed and some say proved that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunbar%27s_number\">there is a physical limit to the number of individuals with whom any single person can have a stable relationship<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That number is 150 (actually 147.8). But wait there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at behavior of chimps, Dumbar noticed that the &#8220;chimps belong to social groups comprising about 50 individuals, but they have only two or three grooming partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then using the same neocortex measurements and ratios on humans, Dunbar calculated the magic numbers for humans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results were\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 ~150 for social group size, and ~12 for the more intimate clique size&#8221; [or grooming size].<\/p>\n<p>So much for <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1731\">Top 8.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can online social networks extend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/monkeysphere.html\">monkeysphere<\/a> in the same way writing as expanded memory? <\/p>\n<p>That is, do online networks allow an individual to manage and groom relationships of a greater order? <\/p>\n<p>How is this accomplished?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Dunbar proposed and some say proved that there is a physical limit to the number of individuals with whom any single person can have a stable relationship. That number is 150 (actually 147.8). But wait there&#8217;s more. Looking at behavior of chimps, Dumbar noticed that the &#8220;chimps belong to social groups comprising about 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}