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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956) [pdf] (utexas.edu)
14 points by signa11 11 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments




Isn’t the consensus nowadays that the number of chunks you can hold in working memory more like four?

Unrelated? Because that's an important distinction



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