Can't get through the paywall, but some of it is that the Price is Right has deliberately made it harder, which I think is something you can't ignore: https://

Can't get through the paywall, but some of it is that the Price is Right has deliberately made it harder, which I think is something you can't ignore: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a7922/price-is-right-perfect-bid-0810/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a7922/price-is-right-p... : "Terry Kniess studied prices. He saw that virtually every prize on The Price Is Right, from a pack of gum to the flashiest car, repeated. He and Linda memorized their values the way Terry had learned to count cards. When they felt they were ready, they made their way to California.... "Actual retail price, $23,743," Carey said. "You got it right on the nose. You win both Showcases."" "The producers no longer rely on Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup; now they have different soups. They have different everything. They've built more luck into the games, dumb luck, and they've started doing sneaky things like changing the options on the cars — adding floor mats, taking away the stereo system — to mess with the prices. And they've started adding more luxury items, like Burberry coats, the sorts of things for which ordinary people who have lived their ordinary lives would never have clipped a coupon." You can study for the Price is Right right now: https://quizlet.com/218097429/the-price-is-right-study-guide-flash-cards/ https://quizlet.com/218097429/the-price-is-right-study-guide... Though I don't vouch for how accurate that's going to be after the changes. Based on what I could read of the article, and what other people are saying in response, I suspect the article is basically ruined by the fact that it was deliberately made harder. Of course after it was deliberately made harder, people did worse. There's not a lot of conclusions to be drawn from that data point, even trendy ones like "addiction to cell phones", which may ruin 90% of the people's memories but another fraction may be using their cell phones to run SRS programs to memorize everything. (You can waste a lot of time on cell phones, sure, but they can be powerfully turned to the light side if you take a bit of time to figure out how.)