On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:06:13 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > The claim being made is that 79/80 is a fundamental, cognitive limit and > has no relation to technological changes.
I don't believe anyone has made that claim. You are reading a statement about general (typical, average) behaviour, and turning it into an absurd statement of a "fundamental" (your word) which applies to every single human being on earth. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list