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From my observations, people's innate ability to relate a map to the world varies. There are some studies attempting to tie this to gender, but my experience is
by syntheticnature 3y ago
From my observations, people's innate ability to relate a map to the world varies. There are some studies attempting to tie this to gender, but my experience is that is not a hard line at all. I'm sure training is a component, of course, but some folks do not tie the abstraction to the real world well at all.
I seem to be good at it, but no one in my wife's family is, so during family get-togethers on that side I'm usually driving or navigating. The fact I can retrace a path I took two years prior from memory is an astonishing feat to them.
- edgarvaldes 3y agoWhen I'm inside the house (any house, but including my own), I often point to a direction when talking about a nearby place. People laugh and correct me because the place I'm talking about is to the north, not to the south as I point out with my finger. I can't go back to a place I was last week without asking for directions. I walk and turn the wrong corner in familiar environments, etc. I love GPS now.
- zikduruqe 3y ago> I love GPS now. The dependence of GPS has made people lose their spatial awareness. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0