EDIT: Added the spinning girl picture. If you see it spin clockwise, you're right brained, anti-clockwise means left brained (or British), ante-clockwise means you're a spanner.
Oh well. I took the test that Brad linked to.
It said 57% right brain. That didn't surprise me - I would have guessed that I lean to the right side of the brain, but am overall fairly integrated and capable of using tools and processes from either hemisphere.It was really weird though, in that the things it said about me in regards to logical, holistic, and random processing strongly contradicted me.
It claimed I'm terrible at spelling, which I'm not. I do make the same half dozen mistakes repeatedly. However, it's very clear reading emails, forums and blogs that I type and spell better than at least 95% of the internet. I note that my spelling has improved slightly in the past 6 months, and significantly over the past 10 years.
It also said I find geometry hard, especially geometric proofs. However, I aced every geometry class I've ever had.
It claimed I get the big picture, but am scared off by the details. While I am a big-picture visionary, I also believe the devil's in the details, and am quite capable of dissecting systems to hunt for the flaws of the mechanical minutia.
It put my logic as the lowest of my left-brain categories, yet I'm way more analytical than most people I know.
The test told me to trust my instincts, 'cause my hunches are usually correct but that I rarely understand the logic behind my intuitive leaps. In response, my gut tells me the test is a bunch of hooey. Maybe I haven't changed since leaving high school, after all.
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The following was in my rough draft of the post, but it came off like bragging or puffery. I'm including it anyway, though I admit it's pretty self-serving to wave this around. Just the same, Repeated Expletives is about the only place I can say this without looking like an attention hog or a freak - most of the readership is gifted not unlike myself. (I hear they call it "twice exceptional" these days).
Ahem.
I remember a 9th grade geometry class where I missed only two test questions the entire year (real simple ones, where I misread the question), got every extra-credit point he allowed, yet did only the first and last problem of every homework assignment. I was freakin' "Rain Man for geometry", especially proofs. Mr Johnson said "Well, I wish you'd do the homework, but I can't deny you've learned everything this class teaches" and gave me the A anyway.
While I refused to memorize the numerized theorems of the text books, I really mastered proofs. I would include the proof of a theorem in the proof of whatever I was working on. I had to, because I never read past the most basic postulates in the book. My proofs would be huge as a result, but they were always right, and I was almost always the first person done with the tests.
At MCAE (now PCAE) I tried to avoid taking math classes. Fratzke thought I was afraid of math, and forced me to take Dorsey's "Open Math" class. I told her it was nothing like that. I knew I'd just skim the book in the first week, internalize everything even remotely relevant to my life, and then sit around bored for the rest of the semester while they forced me to push a pencil. Thankfully, Dorsey believed me, and after a month or so just handed me a Trigonometry book and said "go teach yourself, call me if you hit any problems."
I'm tempted to audit some math classes now that I'm a kept man. I could engage my mind, but just not give a damn about completing all the homework.
What does it mean if I try to give the dancer a dollar?
I tried until I was sweating to get that nudy to spin anything but clockwise. I say she can not spin the other direction! The image moves from right to left. I give up.
I found that if I scroll down so I can only see the shadow, then slowly scroll back up, the direction reverses.
I still see a brass pole, though.
Holy crap! I tried what X suggested, and she started spinning the other way! Lasted till I blinked. Tried again, same thing, lasting till I close my eyes or look the other way. Location on screen matters, too, like whether she's at the top or bottom of your field of vision.
I still haven't seen the pole, but I do see nipples only when she's going clockwise.
Damnit! Now she's stuck anti-clockwise. Damnit, X! Gimme back my nipples!
Hey! I only have three!
It's an hour and a half later, and I can still only see counter-clockwise. I'm suing.
Yeah! She's clockwise! I'll never try that again - it can make you go blind if you do it too much.
So, what does it mean if every time you blink hard, she changes direction?
It's probably related to my background in Architecture and that style of drawing. I've always been able to look at one of those pictures where you see the positive or the negative or one of those pictures where the 3D box can be either inward or outward and make them change while I look at them.
On the other hand, those weird splotching pictures that have something else hidden in them if you let your eyes out of focus just right ... I have never encountered even one that I could see.
You guys find the most interesting stuff.
Background in Architecture eh?
You wouldn't happen to be looking for work, would you?
My first look nearly always has her spinning clock-wise. In under 20 seconds I can get her to switch directions. In that same amount of time she can acquire extra limbs like Vishnu. It takes almost a minute to get her to do a somersault. She says for a twenty we can do all these things in the back room, but I'm just not into fake boobs.
The reason the scrolling trick works is the shadow for the foot. It kicks the left brain into gear. Shadow kick. Heh. The right brain is activated by a top down mentality. I get them to switch back and forth quite quickly now with just a few rapid blinks for strobe effect. So the right brained people are trying to look down her shirt while the left brained people are trying to look up her dress. She has on neither and we're still not seeing anything. Worst stripper ever!
I can't explain the extra arms or somersault trick. Maybe it has something to do with my fucked up vision. Or maybe it's the mescaline kicking in. I honestly don't know.
X wrote: Background in Architecture eh? You wouldn't happen to be looking for work, would you?
Actually, I am looking for work, having been downsized a little before Christmas. However, I never actually finished my Architecture Degree, having switched to Computer Science (programming) after two years.
Currently, I'm working part time as a paralegal. (Don't ask me to explain my work history in a blog post. I've worked many and varied.)
Mostly, I use my drawing skills in gaming.
Though I did get to find out that I still have some of my design skills a few years ago. Some friends opened a gaming shop and I designed and built their furniture.
So, if you're looking for a licensed architect, that's not me. Something less specific, than maybe.
However, on reading your profile, I think the commute from Albuquerque to Antarctica might be a bit rough... :)
I'm in North Idaho actually, but my office is in Spokane, on the dry side of Washington State. We're looking for CAD techs and spec writers too.
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