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Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.[1][2]
This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.[3] By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.[4] There is some evidence that brain structure predicts the number of friends one has, though causality remains to be seen.[5]
Dunbar explained the principle informally as "the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar."[6] 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". On the periphery, the number also includes past colleagues, such as high school friends, with whom a person would want to reacquaint themselves if they met again.[7] Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150.[8][9]
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH LOOKSMAXXING YOU MIGHT ASK?
Well, it tells us at what point looksmaxing hits disminish returns
Basically if we are the best looking male out of 150 we will basically be the best looking person the average person has actual stable social interactions with IRL
So if you are around the 99.67th percentile in looks reconsider that stroma or lefort 2 because your actual appeal with women will probably barely improve at all, you will always be the most attractive guy and being #1 is all that matters, no one cares if an athlete breaks his personal record, as long as he is number 1, he FUCKING MOGS!
This is why mediocre oofy doofies get the best looking girl in your friend group at the end, when stacy breaks with her chadlite boyfriend she effectively has no longer any male she TRUST that can be considered attractive in a objectively way available to date her, she ran out of options so might as well get a simping NT high trust bitch
This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.[3] By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.[4] There is some evidence that brain structure predicts the number of friends one has, though causality remains to be seen.[5]
Dunbar explained the principle informally as "the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar."[6] 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". On the periphery, the number also includes past colleagues, such as high school friends, with whom a person would want to reacquaint themselves if they met again.[7] Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150.[8][9]
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH LOOKSMAXXING YOU MIGHT ASK?
Well, it tells us at what point looksmaxing hits disminish returns
Basically if we are the best looking male out of 150 we will basically be the best looking person the average person has actual stable social interactions with IRL
So if you are around the 99.67th percentile in looks reconsider that stroma or lefort 2 because your actual appeal with women will probably barely improve at all, you will always be the most attractive guy and being #1 is all that matters, no one cares if an athlete breaks his personal record, as long as he is number 1, he FUCKING MOGS!
This is why mediocre oofy doofies get the best looking girl in your friend group at the end, when stacy breaks with her chadlite boyfriend she effectively has no longer any male she TRUST that can be considered attractive in a objectively way available to date her, she ran out of options so might as well get a simping NT high trust bitch
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