An experiment . . .

[omorka]

Hmm. Well, this is not a random sample by any means, but we'll call this an observational study rather than a survey and live with it.

Okay - if you're reading this, I want you to do the following:

In a comment below, tell me how many rooms there were/are in the house of the grandparent or pair of grandparents you visited the most often while you were growing up.

Then tell me, in the same comment, how you retrieved the information in memory - what the process was that you used to answer the question. The more detail you can give on what you did mentally to find an answer, the better.

I'm screening comments so that no one will be contaminated by anyone else's answer. I'll unscreen comments after 48 hours and analyze the results in another post. (I'm interested in whether there are any common methods, or whether we all do this differently, in case you were wondering.)

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6 rooms

[wyldraven.livejournal.com]

I visualized the home, and did a virtual walk through, counting the rooms as I went.