Here's the full text of the study:
Spatial Ability for STEM DomainsI have to say, as a PhD holder in the physical sciences, and someone who would have been ripe for inclusion in this study...
they
might be on to something here. The best way to describe how I feel (and how other scientists I know feel, those I've talked to about what makes us tick)-- the sample questions that they listed?
I
like doing those things. AVIDLY. It's like a part of my brain turns on and lights up somewhere, and I kind of feel the way a Border Collie responds to seeing stock. I can
feel it. It's like an instinctive drive. Figuring out and understanding 'problems' of that nature just... does... something for us. It
is a reward.
I never discovered that, really, until I was in college, though, that pure, obsessive
zeal. It's more than purely spatial ability-- it's the intersection of abstract and spatial reasoning.
That wasn't the most informative thing about this paper, though.
Nope. The CONTROL group's numbers were pretty interesting all by themselves.
Check. out. those Ed. D. numbers.... whoahhhhh-- is it just me, or is it more than a little bit appalling just how
far into the third quadrant those people were, here??
