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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:43:00 -0800 George Shapovalov <george@g.o> |
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| Some recent philosophical, err :), psychological studies concluded |
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| that person normally deals best with 7-9 objects simultaneously. Less |
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| than that and you have to make your "chain of command" unnecessarily |
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| deep. More than that and you start spending more time searching around |
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| or trying to remember what every one of these these is about. (Don't |
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| remember where I saw it now; my wife is a psychologist, that's most |
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| likely where :)). |
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That's when you're dealing with *short term* memory. Long term memory is |
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a whole different kettle of fish. Also, the 7 +- 2 that is usually |
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quoted is only valid for psychologists -- experiments on computer |
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science students here got 12 +- 2. Plus, it can be argued that the test |
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isn't relevant anyway, since it deals with unrelated items. |
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Actually, if we worked based upon the original study that that number |
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came from, what we'd have to do is only provide a small part of the |
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portage tree to new users and then gradually increase the selection as |
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time goes on. Which, clearly, we can't do... |
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Bleh. If anyone really cares I could go and dig up proper references and |
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so on. But really, this is all just hokey psych nonsense approximately |
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akin to eye of newt and leg of frog... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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