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I can’t do shape rotator exercises (raven’s progressive matrices, 90% of ‘aptitude’ / non-verbal IQ tests). I have what is probably the strongest ‘verbal tilt’ I’ve ever heard of. I really do score 99th percentile on verbal and somewhere around 60th percentile on spatial. I did much better than that in actual math, but I think some have speculated that math can go both ways, such that there are both verbal and non-verbal reasoning ways of doing it.
The sad thing is that I genuinely enjoy doing them (matrices / ‘pick the bottom right shape’), but anything above intermediate difficulty (I bought a German puzzle book that categorizes them nicely) and I can stare at it for an hour and not figure it out.
Any other wordcels here? Do you think it’s affected your ‘real’ life?
Based on my SAT scores, I'm probably more of a wordcel. But probably not as much of a drastic difference as you. I'm probably 95-99 percentile verbal. And 80-90th spatial.
In a different era I might have gone down the route of being a lawyer. Programming and spatial thinking was in too high of a demand though. So I ended up as a web developer.
Its been a weird career progression. I find that my intelligence set is not expected for a programming job, or it is expected, but I'm expected to quickly turn into a manager. I can keep up great in meetings, and communicate with a bunch of people on difficult topics. But then when I am left to do greenfield expansion into new areas (a place where the shape-rotators thrive) I'm left confused and lost.
But I found my way into a job that is more wordcel oriented and my shape-rotators skills are rarely called upon. It has been nice and relaxing.
wow. this is leaving me with a lot to think about. Maybe programming wasn’t the right career, and i should embrace the management? hmmm
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