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In my excellent engineering school in France, one group reliably had very bad marks at technical drawings, the Morrocans. It required seeing the pieces in 3D ba
by eastbound 4y ago
In my excellent engineering school in France, one group reliably had very bad marks at technical drawings, the Morrocans. It required seeing the pieces in 3D based on flat drawings. It’s not IQ since they all went on to have great careers, and most performed excellently in calculus or language.
It was also a specific type of Morrocans: Those who strived enough at school to emigrate to France, compared to a specific type of French students, those who succeed in engineering.
To this day, it’s still a mystery to me why a specific group could be so markedly different in only one subject matter. Could it be that Morrocans who succeeded had had no time in their childhood to play spatially? My favorite theory is they didn’t have as much Lego in Morrocco as we (at least future engineers) had in France.
- mkoubaa 4y agoThis probably isn't the reason but people who spend more time in nature have less spatial intuition about artificial things like 90 degree angles and perfect circles. A possibility is that aphants have an advantage in abstract thought so they are the top percentile in maths. If the 96th percentile (in standardized tests of maths) of Moroccans studied at your school instead of the 99th, I would expect them to be better at drawing.
- rvba 4y agoMoroccans also had to spend a lot of time learning French. They probably had to study Ebglish too. People often forget how long it takes to learn another language.
- dopidopHN 4y agoAre you french? I'm asking because if so you might remember the "techno" class in middle school. Those classes introduced 3d modeling for me ( in the 90s, on paper, without computer ) That was not a important class, but you were left knowing how to draw and read a 3d shape in several 2d views
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