(9-2 = 7 [ed.]) In 1955 Dr. George Miller presented his ground-breaking study "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" at a meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Philadelphia, in which he demonstrated that when asked to repeat a random list of letters, words or numbers, people get stuck "somewhere in the neighborhood of seven." Some recall nine, others less than seven, but regardless of the things being recalled - color words, food words, numbers with decimals, consonants or vowels - seven is the statistical average for short-term memory storage. Dr. Miller could not say why seven, but he added, "I have been persecuted by an integer." (seven [ed.]) This resonated playfully in his golf game. "He made the one and only hole-in-one of his life at the age of 77, on 7/7/97, on the seventh hole at Springdale Golf club in Princeton, NJ at 7 PM. It was the seventh time he'd played that course," said his daughter. "He made it with a seven iron. He loved that."
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When tested on their recall of golf terms, Mike Galligan cited: bogey, birdie, par, green, eagle, bunker and fore. Jim Ballard recalled: handicap, slice, green, chip, cup, divot, dog-leg, approach, and sweet-spot. Jan Galligan struggled, finally coming up with: mulligan, bye, spikes, gimmie and 19th-hole. Jan Galligan
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