Javon (1871) conducted an experiment in which he dropped beans on a sheet of paper and had to quickly judge the number that fell within a circle. He defined the span of apprehension as the number of beans that he got right about half the time. What did he conclude the span of apprenshion to be:

A. 7
B. 10
C. 9
D. 4


Ans: C. 9

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