"Dunbar theorised that "this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size [...] the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained"."

Any Chads here with a massive neocortex?

let me break out the ruler real quick and check

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/11/27/sci-fi-writer-claims-lord-of-the-rings-is-racist-due-to-treatment-of-orcs/
Memes become real

About to pick up my new dog today <:teehee:381917632359563264>

Quick survey: how many "stable social relations" do you guys have right now?

I'm trying to find out how accurate this Dunbar number is

Well they are supposed to be green skinned so I dunno

Define stable social relationship

She's a retreiver mix, I'm adopting her

There was a Pitt there that was super nice but I'm not a huge fan

Nooo!! I must get Santa hat

My apartment has a thing against them and he was put in for resource guarding

Basically he doesn't get along with others well

He was super buff tho

@William Russell Ya, that's the thing, it's hard to define. Dunbar defined it informally as the number of people you'd feel comfortable joining uninvited at a bar, but I'd be a bit unconfirmed doing that to *anyone*.

I would say anyone you talk to regularly. Like, they could contact you right now and you wouldn't think anything of it.

@StevePines -WA Should have gotten a German Shepherd because blacks don't like them

@Jacob I’ve got a solid 10 twitter followers so there’s that 😎

cool kid here

@Alex Kolchak - NY didnt follow me back

@Jacob I would say 20-30 based on the bar definition

Why would I have a santa hat when I don't celebrate Christmas?☪

One anthropologist proposes a Dunbar number of 290. Seems insane to me that you could even maintain passive relations with that many people.

I’ve worked for the public for nearly a decade tho

They had a German Shepherd but it was in a pair with another dog

I counted 14 stable social relations and I already find it difficult to maintain contact with everyone. No idea how I would possibly keep track of 150 people. @Asatru Artist - MD

@StevePines -WA like you had to buy both at a time?

I have well over 150+ I would engage in conversation with if I seen them in public tho. Just pleasantries or what not

Yeah

Apparently in some European countries they find them weird

@StevePines -WA weird

@Asatru Artist - MD Celebrating Christmas is blasphemy in my religion

@William Russell In Slavic countries blatantly fake small talk is super weird

Yea that’s what I’ve heard about Germany

@Asatru Artist - MD Not quite.....✡

They were codependent, they've lived with each other their whole lives and the shelter didn't want to separate them @Jacob

Germans disliking small talk? whack and unheard of

@NateDahl76 fix'd

What do you do when you make eye contact with someone you are acquainted with but don’t know well?

@StevePines -WA huh interesting

@William Russell up nod if know them better than average, down nod if less than average