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How much you actually hold

What this lesson adds

See the real limit of unaided short-term memory, and why it is not a flaw.

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Around seven, give or take

Untrained, most people hold about seven digits. That is not a defect you are about to fix — it is the size of the window.

What training changes is how much you fit through the window per item. That is the whole idea of this Lab.