Magical Number Seven, Plus Or Minus Two, The: Some Limits On Our Capacity For Processing Information.

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This paper is missing from PAPERS BY OTHERS file cabinet. "Let me summarize the situation in this way. There is a clear and definite limit to the accuracy with which we can identify absolutely the magnitude of a unidimensional stimulus variable. I would propose to call this limit the 'span of absolute judgment,' and I maintain that for unidimensional judgments this span is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of seven. We are not completely at the mercy of this limited span, however, because we have a variety of techniques for getting around it and increasing the accuracy of our judgments. The three most important...(a) to make relative rather than absolute jusgments...(b) to increase the number of dimensions ...(c)..."

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