I saw an article titled "41 best reality shows on Netflix". We do watch Netflix, Amazon, Wisconsin PBS, Acorn and Max. We know there are good programs on other channels, too. I actually have never watched a reality show, which I think means a family or some other group that are filmed on video while living their lives or doing their business, all without a script. I am confident that 41 shows are far more than I will watch, ever. Thinking about what I am likely to watch, I remember the academic paper by George Miller of the Harvard Psychology department I learned about in grad school. It is titled "The magical number 7 plus or minus 2". It is about the number of items people can hold in their memory easily.
When you take into consideration plus or minus 2, you get the range 5-9. You can find more about the 1956 paper here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two
When I find an article explaining the 1,000 books I must read before I die or the 5,000 American restaurants I must eat a dinner in, I think of my poor old brain and sigh.
