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Posted on 3/3/15 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 3/3/15 at 9:10 pm
I am terrible at this. I got to thinking about this today while placing things with a fork lift and noticing how sloppy I was while other people seemed to align things perfect with no effort.
It reminded me of when I was 17 and thinking of joining the military I went through MEPS and took the ASVAB. I'm very good with standardized test and for the most part crushed the ASVAB, finished very quickly with little effort and even had an officer tell me I had the scores to be anything I wanted in the Military. The one section I had problems with was called "Assembling Objects" which deals with spatial reasoning. I stared at most of these problems and for the life of me could not figure them out, ended up skipping most of them. I looked around the room and the Forrest Gump level people in the room that couldn't answer the simplest math problems on this test were flying through the Assembling Objects portion. Baffled me.
Spatial Reasoning is one of the most basic reasoning abilities, along with verbal, logical, and numerical.
It is an important skill that you use in everyday life without even realizing it. Even blind people have spatial reasoning abilities.
Here is a quiz to test your abilities.
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I tried to do the Easy test and didn't even finish because most of the problems I could stare at for hours and not figure out.
It reminded me of when I was 17 and thinking of joining the military I went through MEPS and took the ASVAB. I'm very good with standardized test and for the most part crushed the ASVAB, finished very quickly with little effort and even had an officer tell me I had the scores to be anything I wanted in the Military. The one section I had problems with was called "Assembling Objects" which deals with spatial reasoning. I stared at most of these problems and for the life of me could not figure them out, ended up skipping most of them. I looked around the room and the Forrest Gump level people in the room that couldn't answer the simplest math problems on this test were flying through the Assembling Objects portion. Baffled me.
Spatial Reasoning is one of the most basic reasoning abilities, along with verbal, logical, and numerical.
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Spatial Intelligence is an area in the theory of multiple intelligences that deals with spatial judgment and the ability to visualize with the mind's eye. It is defined by Howard Gardner as a human computational capacity that provides the ability or mental skill to solve spatial problems of navigation, visualization of objects from different angles and space, faces or scenes recognition or to notice fine details.
It is an important skill that you use in everyday life without even realizing it. Even blind people have spatial reasoning abilities.
Here is a quiz to test your abilities.
LINK
I tried to do the Easy test and didn't even finish because most of the problems I could stare at for hours and not figure out.
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Posted on 3/3/15 at 9:48 pm to BowlJackson
I got 5 out of 8 on the easy test.
Posted on 3/3/15 at 10:02 pm to johndaly
I can't even finish these tests. Why do I suck so hard? Was is those concussions I had in middle school?
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:41 am to BowlJackson
I got 5/8 on the Easy Test, and consider myself fairly intelligent by "traditional" standards. But I had to think really, really hard and did the test mostly by process of elimination rather than "yep, it looks like that." My brain wasn't built for that either.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 9:54 am to BowlJackson
I looked and quit.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:14 am to BowlJackson
I got 7 right and 1 wrong (number 4)
i hate you for making me do this test, it made my head hurt
i hate you for making me do this test, it made my head hurt
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:17 am to Old Sarge
I got 6/8 spending maybe five minutes doing it. My method was to look at the fold out and just pick the picture I thought it would fold into without really thinking it out. This approach wasn't quite as successful with the hard one.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:21 am to BowlJackson
8/12 on the hard test. I actually thought it was decently fun to figure those out. 
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:27 am to BowlJackson
8 of 8 on the easy test. Not going to take the hard test. 
Posted on 3/4/15 at 10:40 am to BowlJackson
The sample question is wrong. A and D are both possible. Edit: Only if it is assumed that both sides of the squares are the same color. D is reversed order (i.e. folded backward)
9 of 12 right on the hard test.
9 of 12 right on the hard test.
This post was edited on 3/4/15 at 10:44 am
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:21 am to cokebottleag
9 right 3 wrong on the hard one
deductive reasoning gets most, you have to narrow down the ones it cant be, then look at the sizes and lengths of shapes
deductive reasoning gets most, you have to narrow down the ones it cant be, then look at the sizes and lengths of shapes
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:31 am to BowlJackson
7/8 on easy
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:44 am to BowlJackson
6/8 on easy. I feel like I rushed it a little.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 1:15 pm to Aux Arc
7/8 on the easy. Missed #5. But I had to really concentrate.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 2:35 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
Easy test. 7/8
Missed #6
Missed #6
Posted on 3/4/15 at 4:52 pm to cokebottleag
I'ts easier if you take the most logical answer and dismantle it.
Used to work around sheet metal machinists.
Used to work around sheet metal machinists.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 7:27 pm to BowlJackson
Before I blow this test out of the water .... are we posting our scores? Because I almost hate to. I'll take it after midnight once I am a little drunker.
3D thinking is my thing - it's scary how good I am at it really. But I'll do it in a little while once From Russia with Love is over. It's my favorite Bond movie.
3D thinking is my thing - it's scary how good I am at it really. But I'll do it in a little while once From Russia with Love is over. It's my favorite Bond movie.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 7:38 pm to Duke
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I got 6/8 spending maybe five minutes doing it. My method was to look at the fold out and just pick the picture I thought it would fold into without really thinking it out. This approach wasn't quite as successful with the hard one.
I did this, and I got 6/8 and then 9/12
maybe 5 mins on both but I sure if I did it again I'd get lower scores
Posted on 3/4/15 at 7:42 pm to BowlJackson
5 out of 8 on the easy and if I'd have gone with my first instinct I'd have got 7
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