• callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Friends? No, this sounds more like the number of people you can reasonably remember by name. Not necessarily friends.

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      7 hours ago

      Dunbar’s Number is the number of people who can be in a group where you know the status of everyone’s relationship to everyone else.

      It means if you live in a village of Dunbar’s Number population, and you see two randomly selected villagers interacting, you already know the context of their relationship so you can interpret what their interactions mean.

      You know if they are friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, etc.

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      11 hours ago

      Theres no fucking way i can remember 300 people. It will take myself years until I even know all of them. Its been 4 months and I still don’t even know more than maybe 10 Persons from my semester so it will take forever to get to know that much people.