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The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information. 1956.
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| Author | Miller, Gerald Alva |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Abstract | My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer. For seven years this number has followed me around, has intruded in my most private data, and has assaulted me from the pages of our most public journals. This number assumes a variety of disguises, being sometimes a little larger and sometimes a little smaller than usual, but never changing so much as to be unrecognizable. The persistence with which this number plagues me is far more than a random accident. There is, to quote a famous senator, a design behind it, some pattern governing its appearances. Either there really is something unusual about the number or else I am suffering from delusions of persecution. I shall begin my case history by telling you about some experiments that tested how accurately people can assign numbers to the magnitudes of various aspects of a stimulus. In the traditional language of psychology these would be called experiments in absolute |
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| DOI | 10.1037/0033-295x.101.2.343 |
| PubMed reference number | 8022966 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 101 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
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| Journal | Psychological review |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
