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I would distinguish between visual imagination and visuospatial reasoning. For people like myself with aphantasia, there are often problems solving strategies

by 1980phipsi 1y ago

I would distinguish between visual imagination and visuospatial reasoning. For people like myself with aphantasia, there are often problems solving strategies that can help you when you can’t visualize. Like draw a picture. And lots of problems don’t really require as much visual imagination as you would think. I’m pretty good at math, programming, and economics. Not top tier, but pretty good. If there are problems out there that you struggle with compared to others, then that’s the universe telling you that you don’t have a comparative advantage in it. Do something else and hire the people who can more easily solve them if you need it.

notmyjob 1y ago
It sounds like you have routed around your spatial visualization deficit, but that just proves the importance of alternate cognitive strategies rather than indicate that such an aptitude or deficit doesn’t ceteris paribus impact mathematical achievement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_visualization_ability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_visualization_ability You probably are high g (iq), which has, historically at least, dominated other factors in determining overall outcomes.
- dekhn 1y ago
  I took some sort of IQ test when I was a kid and there was an entire section that was "if you rotate this object around that axis, it matches which of the followin g options". Try as I might, I can't picture this in my head (picturing anything other than a sphere or a cube is tough) but I found that I could look at the options and logically exclude them in a very tedious way by inspection. It's one of the reasons I like computer graphics so much: the computer does the rotation for you! Stereo graphics (using the funny LCD glasses) was a true revelation to me, and learning how to rotate things using matrics was another.
  - notmyjob 1y ago
    You must hate those fancy new style captchas where you rotate the object. I’ve never considered the fairness and discriminatory aspect of captchas until now. I wonder if in the future eternal September will finally end as increasingly complex captchas act as a sort of poll test on posting.
    - dekhn 1y ago
      no, if I can see the object rotated then I can visually compare features. It's mentally rotating an object which I can't do easily.

notmyjob 1y ago

It sounds like you have routed around your spatial visualization deficit, but that just proves the importance of alternate cognitive strategies rather than indicate that such an aptitude or deficit doesn’t ceteris paribus impact mathematical achievement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_visualization_ability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_visualization_ability You probably are high g (iq), which has, historically at least, dominated other factors in determining overall outcomes.

dekhn 1y ago
I took some sort of IQ test when I was a kid and there was an entire section that was "if you rotate this object around that axis, it matches which of the followin g options". Try as I might, I can't picture this in my head (picturing anything other than a sphere or a cube is tough) but I found that I could look at the options and logically exclude them in a very tedious way by inspection. It's one of the reasons I like computer graphics so much: the computer does the rotation for you! Stereo graphics (using the funny LCD glasses) was a true revelation to me, and learning how to rotate things using matrics was another.
- notmyjob 1y ago
  You must hate those fancy new style captchas where you rotate the object. I’ve never considered the fairness and discriminatory aspect of captchas until now. I wonder if in the future eternal September will finally end as increasingly complex captchas act as a sort of poll test on posting.
  - dekhn 1y ago
    no, if I can see the object rotated then I can visually compare features. It's mentally rotating an object which I can't do easily.