What is the best way to organize a conference?
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It feels like there is a class of problems in social science that can be scienced very hard but are ignored. Things like: - What is the best layout for a poster at a science conference? - What is the optimal number of people in a conversation? (Thread for more)
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What is the best way to both have everybody in a big gathering know who everybody is and have individual conversations?
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What are the pros and cons of all the ways of using technology and real life to organize communities?
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Methods of mapping out incentive structures in large human systems. Not even looking for predictive theories. It would just be great to just have a framework for describing incentives short of a full book.
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Taking distributed teams from "Wright Flier we-hacked-it-together" level to "Jet Engine" level
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I remember reading a paper recently saying that after around 4 people, it’s impossible to conduct an informal conversation...
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Ooo title? My informal testing has yielded seven as the max.
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here's an old one? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02734136 … sorry paywall hell
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and this is the one i was thinking about that came recently : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513818301491 …
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I feel so validated: "the number of individual that could take part in a conversation would be limited to a maximum of seven under conditions of minimal ambient noise" (From Dunbar 1995)
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