Humans remember four things at a time

The Times of India ^ | 12 Jul 2007, 1320 hrs IST | ANI

[wastedyears]

Does that include a phone number?

[stayathomemom]

What happens of you have more than four children?

[savedbygrace]

Does that include a phone number?

Does what include a phone number?

(jk)

[Retired Greyhound]

70% of people believe they are above average intelligence.

[Uri’el-2012]

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information

from 1956 by George Miller

[null and void]

What happens of you have more than four children?

They're easier to keep track of than more than four wives...

[Herakles]

“What happens of you have more than four children?”

I think this means that if you have more than 4, you will only remember four and not that clearly, and you may not know exactly how many children you have but their names will always be changing depending which 4 you are remembering at that time.

So, to be safe, stop at 3.

[Liberty Valance]

I know 236 things. I try not to think about any of them.

[RightWhale]

Seven plus, or minus two.

[MortMan]

And SEX is three of them, at least for many males! ;-P

[Publius6961]

What happens of you have more than four children?

Eventually you do what most parents in such situations do: call the kid the first of the several names that comes to mind.

Just saying.

[Hegemony Cricket]

"What happens of you have more than four children?"

That indicates that you have a problem keeping track of one thing...

[wastedyears]

Lol :)

[OCCASparky]

Sex, sex, beer, and sex.

Yep. Four things.

[edcoil]

The ability of the brain to store and retrieve data and remember what it knows is unique to humans. If you have 4 items on your mind and need a fifth the brains ability to swap info in and out is amazing. This studies goes with the girls like guys with muscles study earlier this week.

[isom35]

john, paul, george, ringo, and pete best. there, I beat it.

[SampleMan]

That would make the short order grill masters at Waffle House the smartest people in the world.

[#1CTYankee]

That's why people who multitask con do four things at a times and screw them all up.

The last time I did this while posting on FR,watching T.V. drinking a beer and having a smoke it didn't go so well.

The next thing I knew the spelling police were after me, the porch was on fire, the main character got killed (By who I don't know) and I was drunk.

[joebuck]

"...the capacity of short-term memory is a strong predictor of an individual's IQ level and scholastic achievement."

This just shows how subjective and difficult "intelligence" is to define. Einstein was notoriously absent minded and often forget when he set down something that was in his hand minutes ago. His weak abilities at rote memorization helped him flunk his college entrance exams. But....once he got a subject down his incredible imagination and intuition took him to wonderous hights. Many consider him the most "intelligent" person of the 20th Century. In reponse to this Einstein retorted that "imagination is much more important than intelligence."