That learning thing

[j4]

This questionnaire supposedly tells you about your preferred modes of learning.

My scores were:

• Visual: 3
• Aural: 2
• Read/Write: 8
• Kinesthetic: 4

The only thing that surprises me is that my visual score isn't higher. I know I'm hopeless at processing aural information -- though it's odd; I can easily follow multi-person conversations, but try to give me directions/instructions verbally and I will have to write them down if there's any hope of me absorbing them or even remembering them.

The questions about getting directions from people really irritated me, though. Perhaps I am peculiar in this but I would not want somebody to tell me directions, draw me a map, or pick me up in a car. I would just want them to TELL ME THE BLOODY ADDRESS so that I can use an actual real printed map, or multimap, or whatever. Much more useful for me, much less effort for them.

But, yeah. Anyway.

Comments

[rmc28]

TELL ME THE BLOODY ADDRESS

Absolutely. That's my preferred method too.

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

Do you prefer to hear someone's directions and write them down yourself or have them write it for you? I think thats the difference the questionnaire is trying to get at. I was 3/4s at everything except for 7 at read-write.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Do you prefer to hear someone's directions and write them down yourself or have them write it for you?

No.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

8 for Read/Write; 1, 1, 2 for the others. No surprises there.

[nja.livejournal.com]

Visual: 5
Aural: 1
Read/Write: 5
Kinesthetic: 6

I used to get into blazing rows when I used to drive a minibus full of adults. Every now and then we'd have to pick up someone new. The man who knew where people lived wouldn't tell me the address so I could look it up in my A-Z, he had to sit behind me saying "turn left here" just as we got to the junction and I had no time to slow down, or (even worse) waving his hands behind my head and saying "you should have turned down there". One of the other drivers was disciplined for calling him a "silly old c***".

My father navigates by road numbers. I navigate by looking at the towns along the route beforehand and reading the road signs, and to some extent also by the "shape" of the route (so a schematic map is no good - I need to see the actual layout of the roads). I think direction-finding is one of those things where there are so many ways of doing it, and people's preferences are so important, that insisting on other people doing it your preferred way is utterly stupid.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

That's the thing, though, isn't it, teaching Other People that there are multiply preferred ways of doing things. I stop people who are trying to give me directions aurally. I say, "draw a map". Or even "Give me the postcode, I'll find a map, I'm a visual thinker (highest mark = 10 on Jan's test), NO, SHUT UP, STOP TALKING, JUST DRAW FER FUXACHE."

OTOH, I have had people say "Fer fuxache, stop drawing, just tell me." Those people are in the wrong, of course.

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

My scores were:

Visual: 2
Aural: 3
Read/Write: 4
Kinesthetic: 4

Apparently I don't learn much by any route. :-) So no surprises there.

(Oh, yeah, they did say I was "multi-modal". Also no surprises there. I can navigate as long as I'm not with 'II; or with him and a compass, as he's cued into his native country and I'm not. Put me down pretty well anywhere in the States and I'm fine. Mental and neuronal mapping is great fun *{sigh}*).

I did once get from Cambridgeto the right address in Jesmond purely by using geographical nous, but I did have the actual address, which is Cheating.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

try to give me directions/instructions verbally and I will have to write them down if there's any hope of me absorbing them or even remembering them.

Don't think. Just obey.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Don't think. Just obey.

But this doesn't actually work for the purposes of underst...

... er, sorry, I mean "Yes, sir".

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

3/3/3/4. Reassuring to know I'm still as unteachable as ever.

[liv]

I learn by reading / writing. Really no surprise in my getting 12 in that category. But as such, I found it incredibly annoying how all the questions switch pronouns in mid-flow and generally aren't grammatical. Grr.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

incredibly annoying how all the questions switch pronouns

Agreed. I kept thinking: "How do I know what you would do, stupid quiz-setting person?"

So I gave up.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

* Visual: 2
* Aural: 6
* Read/Write: 6
* Kinesthetic: 7

I prefer to hear directions so that i may write them down, though.

[imc.livejournal.com]

5, 5, 9, 8. I have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference, apparently. But I wouldn't trust that result too much as I found myself not really knowing the answers to most of the questions.