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Subject:Re: 7 plus or minus 2 From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Tue, 29 Jul 1997 23:35:35 +0800
Pat, you've lost me.
> > The documentation's purpose and form, the information's complexity and
> > depth, and the audience's knowledge and experience are all far more
> > important than Miller's 7+/-2 research in deciding how long a list
> > should be.
[snip...]
> Exactly! Audience, audience, audience! Wonderful post.
So you're agreeing that there's no magic number -- it all depends on
the audience, purpose of docs, etc.
> I keep my bullets to no more than 5.
But if there's no magic number, why follow an arbitrary limit of five
items, regardless of audience, purpose. . .?
Regards
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Stuart Burnfield
Functional Software Pty Ltd mailto:slb -at- fs -dot- com -dot- au
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