Path: ...!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:59:07 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Visualizing Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:59:06 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6u4mdjt3d32biaavd02a2cfebsgtd5kapa@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 59 X-Trace: sv3-oboNx0u90nGKZ7sejaDMHNy+8AOh18HRC/ZmGEZY3HJmeFN3Pvg9g/lnxJmRmzvswQnop9TeZq0SD0G!TQ5qgknpnxaalv+vPUW6OmGLhbryJ9IpmuXxh4skgwPKdbE3MQB3jYhSogAPJBT9eUsEPO0KmBV1!apuSCg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3560 On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:27:38 -0400, Joe Gwinn wrote: >On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:53:46 -0700, john larkin > wrote: > >> >> >>I was driving and listening to the local mostly-annoying NPR radio >>station, but they had an interesting interview with a book author. It >>was about his novel or some poetry or something. >> >>What was interesting was his recalling a conversation that he'd had >>with his wife. She was takling about a plant or something and asked >>him to visualize it. He was astounded that she, or anyone, could close >>their eyes and *see* something they were thinking about. >> >>I was shocked to learn that there are people who can't form a mental >>visual image. >> >>Close your eyes and consider a nice white ceramic dinner plate with a >>beautiful deep red apple sitting in the center. Can you see it? From >>the side and from the top? Do you see the stem? The colors? Imagine it >>slowly rotating? See the fruit fly? >> >>If the world is divided between people who can visualise and people >>who can't, that could explain a great deal. > >There are definitely such people, and I've met them. The example that >springs to mind was a History Teaching Assistant I met in college in >the 1960s. It turned out that he had been an EE Undergrad, and >discovered that he could not visualize the electrons in motion, unlike >his colleagues. This TA was wise enough to know that this was >crippling - he would never be able to compete with those who could >visualize electrons. So he switched to History. > >Joe Gwinn The statistics would be interesting, whether the non-visualization thing is common or maybe very rare. I'll have to google that some time. There is a small fraction of the population that don't like music, for example. That includes me. Some people absolutely can't remember faces. I know a guy who can only recognize people by their hair. I'd expect that among CE/EE graduates, good visualizers would tend to be more EE and less visualizers more CE. Things vs words. That would suggest a good interview question. I was drafted once (never served) and took a test to join the Marine Corps. One part involved looking at a flat thing with various squares painted with patterns, and then imagining a box that was folded up from the flat thing. I guess that visualizing things would be useful to a Marine. I think the original IQ test was for the military.