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Coincidentally, within the original 1880 study [0] that first grappled with the phenomena it was most highly-correlated with scientists. He concludes that: "sci
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Coincidentally, within the original 1880 study [0] that first grappled with the phenomena it was most highly-correlated with scientists. He concludes that: "scientific men as a class have feeble powers of visual representation... My own conclusion is, that an over-readiness to perceive clear mental pictures is antagonistic to the acquirement of habits of highly generalised and abstract thought."
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160416064610/http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20160416064610/http://psychclass...