I suspect that Reed's law does not apply to legislative bodies, particularly the NM legislature and perhaps to the US Congress. In my rather limited experience, I find that groups of 3-9 people are the most effective when trying to accomplish a real task. But then again perhaps these are the sub-groups in Reed's analysis. It would be interesting to make an agent based model of the US congress and throw different issues at it. Let chaos reign, Paul
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