Talk:Allen curve

Refutation
"It reveals the exponential drop of frequency of communication between engineers as the distance between them increases."

Maybe that was true in the 1970ies, and for ordinary engineers. Computer engineers or engineers that mainly work with computers, likely does not follow this observation. Programming can effectively be done in groups over huge distances. 88.80.29.64 (|talk) 17:00, 29 October 2010

50 meters
"... Probability of weekly communication (Allen, 1977:236) [3 pages with graph follow now] reaches a low asymptotic level within the first twenty-five or thirty meters (Allen, 1977: 240). ..."

"... For weekly contact, it is only within the first thirty meters that separation has any real effect on the probability of communication ...(Allen, 1977: 240)"

According to the graph on the page 239 the probability of communicating at least once a week approximatly  0.05 (!) at a distance of 50 meters. This does not meet the quoted 50 meters as a "critical distance" in the "discovery" paragraph of the aticle.

Allen, J.T. (1977). Managing the flow of technology: Technology transfer and the dissemination of technologycal information within the R&D organization. Cambridge, MA: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.126.210.219 (talk) 17:46, 19 April 2012 (UTC)