Re: How do women read maps?


In article <jIidnWU9-8WLZhPVnZ2dnUVZ8qPinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Kate XXXXXX <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
|>
|> > Firstly, this "linear" versus "visual" division is crap. ...
|>
|> No-one concerned with the 'ckassification' of learning styles has ever
|> tried to say there were any devisions: it's always beed accepted that
|> these were descriptive, subject to change, and there are no hard and
|> fast rules about who should go where in the classification. ...

Hmm. I have seen quite a lot of people involved in that area encourage
that myth. It's typically ones that start to take up politics (academic
or otherwise), or start to become media gurus (including writing down
for the general public).

You get even first-class experts (like, in another area, Richard
Dawkins) who commit that offence. Many of his over-simplications
introduce black-and-white categories that don't exist.

|> When you get into the extremes of higher maths, it is more like a
|> mixture of art and leaps of faith to the outsider, much like theology
|> and philosophy.

Or even more so :-)

|> MOST people type much faster than they can write by hand, even if they
|> only 'hunt & peck'. ...

Are you by any chance a youngster - at least compared with me? :-)

It was extremely rare for that to be the case 40 years ago, for the
typical two-fingered tyro (as I remain to this day). Writing speeds
have dropped, and most people now use a keyboard from an early age.
Heck, it was a punishable offence at my schools to be unable to write
longhand faster than hinting and pecking! Yes, I got beaten for it.

|> > I can't write English so the average person can understand it.
|>
|> My bro (98% engineer) used to be like this, but a lifetime of writing
|> technical reports for the various manglement teams he's worked for has
|> honed the skills. His reports tend to be spare to the point of terse,
|> and waste nothing, but are clear enough for the layman to work with fot
|> strategic planning in the international telecoms field.

Oh, heck, I can do THAT. Simple factual reports and recommendations
are not a problem, and mine seem to be more successful than most people's.
And I have done a lot of that sort of thing.

It's when I get onto more subtle and complex issues that the difficulty
arises. To take a very simple example (i.e. with no problem about
concepts with no verbal expression), expressing a multi-valued and
conditional statement where the conditions are themselves multi-valued
and conditional is tricky. No matter how clearly I write it, most
people misunderstand it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
.

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