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Re:Hacking the Magical Number Seven With Storytelling by rw on Monday September 07, 2009 @12:01PM (#809332)
Did you mean that my summary is concise and correct, or just a correct representation of an incorrect statement?
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Re:Hacking the Magical Number Seven With Storytelling by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @05:32AM (#810572)
I see how that sentence is ambigious. I meant that you have it correct. The two key elements being "short term memory" and "items (variously defined)".

This article thinks it applies to long term memory, and most people don't realise you can 'hack' this by chunking 'items' into bigger 'items' (e.g 7 two digit numbers have 14 digits total).

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