if you have good evidence that your shape rotator abilities aren’t reasonably strong — e.g., you studied reasonably hard for SAT Math but got <700 (90th percentile among all SAT takers).[6]
This is really minor, but I think there’s a weird conflation of spatial-visual reasoning and mathematical skills in this post (and related memespaces like roon’s). This very much does not fit my own anecdotal experiences*, and I don’t think this is broadly justified in psychometrics research.
*FWIW, I’ve bounced off of AISTR a few times. I usually attribute the difficulty being that I broadly have high but insufficiently high mathematical ability. Though I’m open to spatial-visual reasoning being the bottleneck (I’m actually very bad at this, like I regularly get lost in places I’ve lived in for years).
I agree. Anecdotally, among people I know, I’ve found aphantasia to be more common among those who are very mathematically skilled.
(Maybe you could have some hypothesis that aphantasia tracks something slightly different than other variance in visual reasoning. But regardless, it sure seems similar enough that it’s a bad idea to emphasize the importance of “shape rotating”. Because that will turn off some excellent fits.)
This is really minor, but I think there’s a weird conflation of spatial-visual reasoning and mathematical skills in this post (and related memespaces like roon’s). This very much does not fit my own anecdotal experiences*, and I don’t think this is broadly justified in psychometrics research.
*FWIW, I’ve bounced off of AISTR a few times. I usually attribute the difficulty being that I broadly have high but insufficiently high mathematical ability. Though I’m open to spatial-visual reasoning being the bottleneck (I’m actually very bad at this, like I regularly get lost in places I’ve lived in for years).
I agree. Anecdotally, among people I know, I’ve found aphantasia to be more common among those who are very mathematically skilled.
(Maybe you could have some hypothesis that aphantasia tracks something slightly different than other variance in visual reasoning. But regardless, it sure seems similar enough that it’s a bad idea to emphasize the importance of “shape rotating”. Because that will turn off some excellent fits.)