On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 15:52:02 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 13:51 +0000, Dmitry Olshansky via
Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
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O.T.: Which is a well known number when it comes to cognition.
It’s usually 7+-2.
A number that is often misunderstood, and misused. As in this
case.
http://www.intropsych.com/ch06_memory/magical_number_seven.html
Won’t load for me(
Anyhow far as I can tell it is a measure of how many entities
simultaniously you can hold in your attention, such objects in a
picture frame.
This doesn’t represent long-term memory or other capacities,
which is likely the case here.
