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Tag: General Social Survey

Read a bus timetable? No chance ….

When I was an undergraduate a long time ago, it was the well-established habit of third and fourth year psychology students to pounce on unsuspecting innocents like myself and subject us to a battery of psychology tests, none of which we got paid for (just catch any of this happening these days!). However, the test measuring verbal versus spatial ability and scored on a percentile ranking, has been of revelatory value to me for my whole life since then.

Why? Because the researcher confirmed my dawning suspicion that I was never designed to be a homing pigeon, and gave me a lifelong excuse (explanation? Take your pick….) for getting myself lost at the drop of a map. He found that my verbal ability was above the 95th percentile, and exceptionally high. ( See! Born to be a writer….) HOWEVER, my spatial ability was exceptionally low: below the 5th percentile. I can still remember the baffled look on the budding psychologist’s face as he read off my results. “How on EARTH do you manage to get about?” he enquired, in a voice carrying equal measures of pity and incredulity. And, dear reader, I have been pondering that question ever since.

So I just loved this post….

Getting Found by Getting Lost

Where did you say I was?
Where did you say I was?

200 words copyright Anne Whitaker 2013

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Posted on May 22, 2013June 5, 2013 by Anne WhitakerPosted in 03 - Brilliant Posts! - May 2013 onTagged Education, General Social Survey, McDonald, Percentile, Psychology, Social Sciences, United States, Vegemite. 2 Comments
Anne Whitaker

Born and raised in the storm-tossed stark beauty of the Scottish Western Isles where my love for nature, sky and seascapes first arose. Driven always by restless curiosity about why we are here, and what we have to do to feel there is a point to it all. Find out more

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