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Neuromancer49@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That’s not quite the same thing - the 7 digit phone number has more to do with short-term memory capacity than visual perception. Miller’s Law of short-term memory is we can store 7 +/- 2 items at a time, depending how complex they are.

…wikipedia.org/…/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_o…

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