• 768@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Bus drivers, truck drivers, farmers do it too, established villages smaller than 150 inhabitants as well.

    Small community theory: I'd argue that it's associated with this peer group of approx. 300 people thing, where humans get influenced by only a very few hundred people directly or smth lioe this, but I don't remember the source.

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      1 year ago

      I believe you're thinking of Dunbar's Number, but it's 150 rather than 300. Which does fit better with your original claim.

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        1 year ago

        Yo that's the one. Quick skew on wikipedia and I wonder how reliable it is though, given the confidence intervals and broad scope (apes?).