
The Things Most Often Forgotten
I was relieved to find out that I’m not the only one who forgets things. Everyone does at one time or another, according to Karen Bolla, A Johns Hopkins researcher. The things most often forgotten:
Names 83%Where something is 60%Telephone numbers 57%Words 52%What was said 49%Faces 42%And if you can’t remember whether you’ve just done something, you join 38 percent of the population. (Our Daily Bread, December 27, 1996)