Comment by 1980phipsi

Comment by 1980phipsi 9 hours 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 4 hours 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

You probably are high g (iq), which has, historically at least, dominated other factors in determining overall outcomes.

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dekhn 2 hours 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.

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