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==Criticism==
 
Other analysts of network value functions, including [[Andrew Odlyzko]] and [[Eric S. Raymond]], have argued that both Reed's Law and Metcalfe's Law <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/metcalfes-law-is-wrong|title=Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong|work=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|access-date=2017-11-10|language=en}}</ref> overstate network value because they fail to account for the restrictive impact of human cognitive limits on network formation. According to this argument, the research around [[Dunbar's number]] implies a limit on the number of inbound and outbound connections a human in a group-forming network can manage, so that the actual maximum-value structure is much sparser than the set-of-subsets measured by Reed's law or the complete graph measured by Metcalfe's law.
 
== See also ==