Anthropologist H. Russell Bernard, [[Peter Killworth]] and associates have done a variety of field studies in the United States that came up with an estimated mean number of ties, 290, which is roughly double Dunbar's estimate. The Bernard–Killworth [[median]] of 231 is lower, due to an upward skew in the distribution, but still appreciably larger than Dunbar's estimate. The Bernard–Killworth estimate of the maximum likelihood of the size of a person's [[social network]] is based on a number of field studies using different methods in various populations. It is not an average of study averages but a repeated finding.<ref>{{cite journal |last=McCarty |first=C. |last2=Killworth |first2=P. D. |last3=Bernard |first3=H. R. |last4=Johnsen |first4=E. |last5=Shelley |first5=G. |title=Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size |journal=Human Organization |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=28–39 |year=2000 |doi= 10.17730/humo.60.1.efx5t9gjtgmga73y|url=https://www.bebr.ufl.edu/sites/default/files/Comparing%20Two%20Methods%20for%20Estimating%20Network%20Size_0.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bernard | first1 = H. R. | last2 = Shelley | first2 = G. A. | last3 = Killworth | first3 = P. | title = How much of a network does the GSS and RSW dredge up? | doi = 10.1016/0378-8733(87)90017-7 | journal = Social Networks | volume = 9 | pages = 49–61 | year = 1987 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref><ref>H. Russell Bernard. "Honoring Peter Killworth's contribution to social network theory." Paper presented to the University of Southampton, 28 September 2006. http://nersp.osg.ufl.edu/~ufruss/</ref> Nevertheless, the Bernard–Killworth number has not been popularized as widely as Dunbar's. | Anthropologist H. Russell Bernard, [[Peter Killworth]] and associates have done a variety of field studies in the United States that came up with an estimated mean number of ties, 290, which is roughly double Dunbar's estimate. The Bernard–Killworth [[median]] of 231 is lower, due to an upward skew in the distribution, but still appreciably larger than Dunbar's estimate. The Bernard–Killworth estimate of the maximum likelihood of the size of a person's [[social network]] is based on a number of field studies using different methods in various populations. It is not an average of study averages but a repeated finding.<ref>{{cite journal |last=McCarty |first=C. |last2=Killworth |first2=P. D. |last3=Bernard |first3=H. R. |last4=Johnsen |first4=E. |last5=Shelley |first5=G. |title=Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size |journal=Human Organization |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=28–39 |year=2000 |doi= 10.17730/humo.60.1.efx5t9gjtgmga73y|url=https://www.bebr.ufl.edu/sites/default/files/Comparing%20Two%20Methods%20for%20Estimating%20Network%20Size_0.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bernard | first1 = H. R. | last2 = Shelley | first2 = G. A. | last3 = Killworth | first3 = P. | title = How much of a network does the GSS and RSW dredge up? | doi = 10.1016/0378-8733(87)90017-7 | journal = Social Networks | volume = 9 | pages = 49–61 | year = 1987 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref><ref>H. Russell Bernard. "Honoring Peter Killworth's contribution to social network theory." Paper presented to the University of Southampton, 28 September 2006. http://nersp.osg.ufl.edu/~ufruss/</ref> Nevertheless, the Bernard–Killworth number has not been popularized as widely as Dunbar's. |