Can you have more than 150 friends?
11 May, 2021 10:29 PM
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Scientists are debating how many friendships one person can maintain. Photo / 123RF
New York Times
By: Jenny Gross
A new study questions that figure, known as Dunbar s number. The Oxford professor for whom it is named, Robin Dunbar, dismissed the findings as absolutely bonkers.
Just how many friends can one person have? In a 1993 study, Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, theorised that humans could have no more than about 150 meaningful relationships, a measure that became known as Dunbar s number.
But researchers at Stockholm University published a paper last week calling that number into question, finding that people could have far more friends if they put in the effort.
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LONDON â Just how many friends can one person have?
In a 1993 study, Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, theorized that humans could have no more than about 150 meaningful relationships, a measure that became known as Dunbarâs number.
But researchers at Stockholm University published a paper last week calling that number into question, finding that people could have far more friends if they put in the effort.
âWe can learn thousands of digits of pi, and if we engage with lots of people, then we will become better at having relationships with lots of people,â said Johan Lind, an author of the study and an associate professor at Stockholm University. The paper was published in the journal Biology Letters.
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