It was hypothesized that the psychophysical law would describe the relationship between perceived circuit complexity as judged by journeymen maintenance personnel and the actual number of complexity attributes of circuits as determined by professional engineers. Employing data independently derived from these two sources, the above hypothesis appears to have been verified.
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