Identical numerical ratios yield different sociology at different absolute magnitudes.

Evidence

The strange thing is that the absolute numbers of the total group and of its prominent elements so remarkably determine the relations within the group in spite of the fact that their numerical ratio remains the same. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 3220

Categorization

• CANDY: Easily quotable: same ratio, same proportion — yet four rebels in a party of twenty matter less than ten in fifty.
• QUESTION: Does this absolute-magnitude effect scale beyond small parliamentary and city examples into institutions of modern scale?