[wastedyears]

Does that include a phone number?

[stayathomemom]

What happens of you have more than four children?

[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

[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

[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."

[SJSAMPLE]

If I recall my Junior year Psychology class, this is called “chunking”, where the mind groups and retains information in bits of four or five.

[Larry Lucido]

I have 5 things to say about this:

1) It’s stupid
2) It’s lame
3) The study was a waste of time
4) The study underestimates the human capacity to retain facts
5) .......um .... hmmmm.....ah, never mind.

[TRY ONE]

Similar to Yogi Berra on baseball:

“90% of this game is half mental”

[Revolting cat!]

Here’s a thought. Until Jimi Hendrix Experience and Creem emerged in or about 1966, rock bands had a minimum of four members, and almost always two guitar players, or a guitar player and a keyboard player. Then the three man bands came, and now two man bands (White Stripes, the Black Keys.) What does it say about the listeners?

Who can remember the names of the six original Rolling Stones? Who was the 7th man in the early lineup?

[Porterville]

What if the participant are hungover?

[CholeraJoe]

Beer, pizza, sex, nascar. Sounds fine to me.

[Cicero]

Somebody’s been reading the memory game in “Kim,” and decided to put it to the test.