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Miller's Seven Plus or Minus Two
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Miller reported that short-term memory holds between five and nine items, which he called the magic number seven plus or minus two.
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In Miller's studies, participants repeated back seven digits reliably and failed at ten.
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Miller's estimate was for items as commonly presented. What counts as an item is itself the variable.