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A formal organizational model links increasing group size to coordination overload, identifies a modeled productivity maximum near 15 for one parameter set, and places stable social-group capacity broadly around 100–250 with a typical value of 150. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: A theory of discrete hierarchies as optimal cost-adjusted productivity organisations · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a36516aa19a049c0ae33793559801dcc2266dda102ae9b12de4f646d61cf82b9

As the group size increases, this super-linear production may tip over ... because ... too many communication channels would overload the attention span leading to collapsing performance. ... the productivity ... has its absolute maximum at N ≈ 15 ... Dunbar’s number is typically between 100 and 250, with a commonly used typical value of 150.