psychology
The famous limit of 150 friends a human brain can supposedly hold turns out to rest on a calculation whose own confidence interval runs from 2 to 520 — too wide to support any specific number, let alone the one everyone quotes - Silicon Canals
https://siliconcanals.com/n-the-famous-limit-of-150-friends-a-human-brain-can-supposedly-hold-turns-out-to-rest-on-a-calculation-whose-own-confidence-interval-runs-from-2-to-520-too-wide-to-support-any-specific-number/
A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.
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What if It’s Not the Phones?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/
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