The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

Posted by influxed on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:40PM
from the psychclassics.yorku.ca dept.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/

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Re:The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two by slashnull on Monday October 27, 2014 @02:19PM (#8517154)

Mine is approximately half of that.

Eagerly awaiting artificial memory implants. 'l be the first in line.

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Re:The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two by victor22 on Monday October 27, 2014 @02:48PM (#8517336)

Mirror? Seems dead from here.

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Re:The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two by slashnull on Monday October 27, 2014 @06:22PM (#8518515)

Too lazy, but you can just google "miller magic number" and it explains to you that we can remember 7 +- 2 elements at the same time and discusses a few implications, such as phone numbers having 7 digits.

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