Miller's law

1956 thesis by George Miller on working memory capacity
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Miller's law

Summary

Miller's law is a thesis statement[1]. It draws 454 Wikipedia views per month (thesis_statement category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Miller's law is credited with the discovery of George Armitage Miller[3].
  • Miller's law's instance of is recorded as thesis statement[4].
  • 7 is named after Miller's law[5].
  • Miller's law's subclass of is recorded as cognitive psychology[6].
  • Miller's law's DOI is recorded as 10.1037/H0043158[7].
  • Miller's law's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • +1956-03-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Miller's law[9].
  • Miller's law's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0284n_[10].
  • Miller's law's PubMed publication ID is recorded as 13310704[11].
  • Miller's law's main subject is recorded as working memory[12].
  • Miller's law's main subject is recorded as cognitive psychology[13].
  • Miller's law's described at URL is recorded as https://www.musanim.com/miller1956/[14].
  • Miller's law's described by source is recorded as The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information[15].
  • Miller's law's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two'}[16].
  • Miller's law's subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information'}[17].
  • Miller's law's OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID is recorded as 371954[18].

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Works and Contributions

Miller's law is credited with the discovery of George Armitage Miller[3].

Why It Matters

Miller's law draws 454 Wikipedia views per month (thesis_statement category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . Consolidated OpenCitations Corpus – April 2017. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Consolidated OpenCitations Corpus – April 2017. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Consolidated OpenCitations Corpus – April 2017. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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