I'm afraid I am an "F". On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Personally, most of my "thinking in J" uses my visual/spatial > >> reasoning rather than my verbal/grammatical reasoning. > > > > An old colleague of mine, Dr Nick Hammond, of York University, once > > designed a psychological "test" or "index" to determine a person's > > cognitive style (at least, in one important respect), and showed it to > > be remarkably constant across all aspects of life. It seems to have > > nothing to do with (general) intelligence, left/right hemisphere > > orientation, nor other (popular) mental quality ...but that's a > > research question. > > > > Essentially... > > > > == Type A picks up a hammer and then looks for something to hit. > > == Type B first selects a nail and then looks for something to hit it > with. > > > > Mac/Windows (WIMP) interfaces cater for B's. Unix suits A's. > > Interesting... > > Personally, I much prefer the unix approach to the windowed approach > and use cygwin extensively when I use windows. I do not have a mac. > > This strikes me as conflicting with the way you have characterized > problem solving approaches, here. > > Then again, I keep thinking that this discussion belongs in chat... > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
