I wrote something painfully long her. Not worth reading.
Short answer which is still too long:
It's like being an alien. I cannot be interested in the entertainment my coworkers talk about. I sit in meetings, and the entire table will laugh, and laugh hard, and a generic comment I have heard over 100 times. That they've all heard 100 times.
"well it IS monday!" hahahahahahahahhaha
They snicker like they've done something subversive and surprising.
Have you talked to somebody with Downs? The cheerful conversational ones that are pretty high functioning? You can like them and respect them and feel they're pleasant to be around. But you never ask them a question you need a real insight on.
That's how most conversations end up being.
To be more direct.
It depends how difficult the book is but generally yes. I could review books i read once 14 years ago. Of course there are smarter people than me, and they have written books and those ones take a bit more work, but most literature isn't a challenge. I expect that the way I feel about very chewy books might be how people with a lower IQ feel about books I find easy. As an example. I still don't REALLY understand what "studying" is. I just don't get how you can sit for hours internalizing the same information. I don't understand how to do it, I don't understand how it's effective. I don't get it. You read the thing, and then you've read it. Do you just read the same paragraph over and over? I don't understand it.
Small amounts of evidence is relative. I don't know. I don't think logic is necessarily tied to/dependent on IQ. If logic is the path, IQ is the engine. Your speed is important, but it doesn't help you not get lost. You can try more paths than others in the same amount of time, but again, speed doesn't help you navigate any better. As with many things, making good inferences is more about experience than anything else. It's less about having an instinct, vs knowing how much information you need to have before your instinct can actually connect the dots properly. Otherwise you're just guessing.
No. Maybe if you're an actual genius, which I am not. People do have facets and areas they are drawn to and better at. When i took the SAT, I did entire sections of the language test without reading the passages, and in some cases I even started skipping the questions themselves. I scored in the 99th percentile. I've always been able to do that, and I've tried multiple times to teach it and failed. It just works. My Math score was decidedly mid list 56th or something if I remember right. I'm also absolute shit at spatial reasoning, and partially prosopagnostic. These are things I cannot do regardless of how hard I try.
I cannot be interested in the entertainment my coworkers talk about. I sit in meetings, and the entire table will laugh, and laugh hard, and a generic comment I have heard over 100 times. That they've all heard 100 times.
I wrote something painfully long her. Not worth reading.
Short answer which is still too long:
It's like being an alien. I cannot be interested in the entertainment my coworkers talk about. I sit in meetings, and the entire table will laugh, and laugh hard, and a generic comment I have heard over 100 times. That they've all heard 100 times.
"well it IS monday!" hahahahahahahahhaha
They snicker like they've done something subversive and surprising.
Have you talked to somebody with Downs? The cheerful conversational ones that are pretty high functioning? You can like them and respect them and feel they're pleasant to be around. But you never ask them a question you need a real insight on.
That's how most conversations end up being.
To be more direct.
It depends how difficult the book is but generally yes. I could review books i read once 14 years ago. Of course there are smarter people than me, and they have written books and those ones take a bit more work, but most literature isn't a challenge. I expect that the way I feel about very chewy books might be how people with a lower IQ feel about books I find easy. As an example. I still don't REALLY understand what "studying" is. I just don't get how you can sit for hours internalizing the same information. I don't understand how to do it, I don't understand how it's effective. I don't get it. You read the thing, and then you've read it. Do you just read the same paragraph over and over? I don't understand it.
Small amounts of evidence is relative. I don't know. I don't think logic is necessarily tied to/dependent on IQ. If logic is the path, IQ is the engine. Your speed is important, but it doesn't help you not get lost. You can try more paths than others in the same amount of time, but again, speed doesn't help you navigate any better. As with many things, making good inferences is more about experience than anything else. It's less about having an instinct, vs knowing how much information you need to have before your instinct can actually connect the dots properly. Otherwise you're just guessing.
No. Maybe if you're an actual genius, which I am not. People do have facets and areas they are drawn to and better at. When i took the SAT, I did entire sections of the language test without reading the passages, and in some cases I even started skipping the questions themselves. I scored in the 99th percentile. I've always been able to do that, and I've tried multiple times to teach it and failed. It just works. My Math score was decidedly mid list 56th or something if I remember right. I'm also absolute shit at spatial reasoning, and partially prosopagnostic. These are things I cannot do regardless of how hard I try.
That is just called autism.