Limit number of parameters per method?

Question

Assuming the parameters are all the same type, is there a rule of thumb in regards to the number of parameters for a method? Im just wondering where I should draw the line and

Answer 1

Steve McConnell addresses this in Code Complete, citing research that suggests people can't really handle more than seven chunks of information at a time, making seven a common-sense limit wherever it's practical.

In the concluding paragraph of that section (page 178 in the second edition), he writes:

If you find yourself consistently passing more than a few arguments, the coupling among your routines is too tight ... If you are passing the same data to many different routines, group the routines into a class and treat the frequently used data as class data.