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And yet there are more than 500k deaths in a population of 330M. I mean, the odds are there.
by ainiriand 6y ago
And yet there are more than 500k deaths in a population of 330M. I mean, the odds are there.
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- adolph 6y agoSo what are the odds that 110M know one of .5M USA persons? "Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. . . . It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150."[0] So .5 * 150 = 75; .5 * 250 = 125, so 110 is in the upper range of Dunbar's number which may reflect asymmetric "personal knowing," whereby someone may be personally known to others even if the others might not be personally known to someone. To me this makes intuitive sense since the disease mortality is skewed toward older people who I think would be known by more people. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number