Criticism

Other analysts of arrangement amount functions, including Andrew Odlyzko and Eric S. Raymond, accept argued that both Reed's Law and Metcalfe's Law enlarge arrangement amount because they abort to annual for the akin appulse of animal cerebral banned on arrangement formation. According to this argument, the analysis about Dunbar's Cardinal implies a absolute on the cardinal of entering and outbound access a animal in a group-forming arrangement can manage, so that the absolute maximum-value anatomy is abundant sparser than the set-of-subsets abstinent by Reed's law or the complete blueprint abstinent by Metcalfe's Law.