RE: The Myth of Seven, Plus or Minus Two

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

Perhaps people misuse Miller's work because they understand the value of
brevity and seek a scientific basis for that understanding -- an unfortunate
attempt to quantify aesthetics.

Really, all you need is Strunk: "Vigorous writing is concise." Leave Miller
alone.

Dan Goldstein

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:53 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: The Myth of Seven, Plus or Minus Two
> 
> Steven Jong <SteveFJong -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote on 12/03/2003 08:03:52 AM:
> > I'm a supporter of the Miller principle across many areas of
> > information design, and I wanted to point out that to me, the cited
> > article was not persuasive. It argued by assertion that
> > Miller's work doesn't apply today, without saying why.
> 
> The problems are that this subject has been beaten to death a 
> thousand times... and that Miller himself isn't a
> big supporter of many of the ways that his work was interpreted...
> 
> It's not a question that the research no longer applies. It 
> never applied in the
> first place...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ROBOHELP FOR FRAMEMAKER TRIAL NOW AVAILABLE!

RoboHelp for FrameMaker is a NEW online publishing tool for FrameMaker that
lets you easily single-source content to online Help, intranet, and Web.  
The interface is designed for FrameMaker users, so there is little or no
learning curve and no macro language required! Call 800-718-4407 for 
competitive pricing or download a trial at: http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l4

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.