To: Alberta's Child
When I was in EE at Vanderbilt in the mid-60's, the 'weeder' course for females was Drafting.
4 of the 5 girls in a class of about 20 could not look at the 3 views (top, front, and side) and visualize and draw the 3D object. They just couldn't do it, even after the 5th girl tried to help them.
Actually all of us did. They were all really cute!
They were all very smart and had no problems with the math and science courses. Just drafting.
My wife is the same way. Very smart with a great career in the medical field, but also can't rotate the 3 views in her mind to see the 3D image.
Genetics?
123 posted on
09/28/2022 7:37:39 AM PDT by
chaosagent
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To: chaosagent
can't rotate the 3 views in her mind to see the 3D image. I have heard from psychology types that very few people can do that, and most of us end up in engineering or applied science.
124 posted on
09/28/2022 7:39:33 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
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To: chaosagent
Odd I have always been able to see 3 D and always stand outside a building to size up where the rooms go after I have been in it.
125 posted on
09/28/2022 7:40:27 AM PDT by
Chickensoup
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To: chaosagent
Those girls would have made for terrible civil engineers. LOL.
137 posted on
09/28/2022 8:12:01 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
To: chaosagent
Rotating 3D images in my head is easy. I enjoy solving a Rubik's cube.
In 1984, I purchased an OS/9 operating system for my Radio Shack Color Computer. RS offered a C compiler, assembler and Pascal compiler. My wife was attracted to trying the Pascal compiler. She was writing some really good code. She is very skilled, yet doesn't not enjoy writing code. She earned a Technician amateur radio license (code included) to enable comms when she is in the field flying her birds of prey. She is a master falconer. Her very first apprentice from 25 years in the past just died last year.
People gravitate to things they enjoy and perform well.
155 posted on
09/28/2022 9:20:33 AM PDT by
Myrddin
To: chaosagent
MY wife; too.
She tries to describe what she is thinking about, but her words do not work very well either.
I usually have to draw something over and over while she says, “No - the other way.” again and again.
191 posted on
09/28/2022 2:19:17 PM PDT by
Elsie
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To: chaosagent
Yes. Spatial relations is a term used for that in the general sense, or was, and it tends to be something men are better at than women.
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