My main criticism of the working memory hypothesis is that it considers memory to made up of discrete entities, like digits in a number. It's fun to play with the test - though I think I could have done better than the 9 or 10 digits I was remembering had I not been listening to Ed Tech Talk at the same time. But the main thing here is that neither our knowledge nor our experience is composed on discrete entities. Our knowledge of one thing cross-crosses over our knowledge of other things. So... is working memory a "more important factor than deliberate practice in achieving greatness (or at least as important a factor)." ? I say no. p.s. Just for the record, here's my data.
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