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pagekalisedown on March 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: ReCAPTCHA Mailhide

"As any group of people gets larger, they get collectively slower and collectively stupider."

Amen!

My personal threshold is around 100 people. Pass 100, and you quickly dive into Dilbert territory.

rogerbinns on March 4, 2012 [–]

> My personal threshold is around 100 people

That is probably highly correlated with Dunbar's number

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number

pagekalisedown on March 4, 2012 | [–]

Very enlightening article, thank you!

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