Sandra Dodd

I tried to look for a topic I’ve never heard of. :-) In a way.

In another topic (School vs. Unschooling, my third post there), I wrote this:

It happens that there is a skill in seeing things in a three-dimensional way, and in being able to reverse and rotate objects mentally. Engineering comes of that. And most people called dyslexic are boys. And many people whose strongest intelligence is mathematical and spatial reasoning are boys, and those can come as a set.

I went to look for other sets of intelligences. I’ll take that to another topic, but dyslexia isn’t created so much as it is a natural part of seeing for MANY, many people. Mostly male.
…. Some have that math/engineering/dyslexia combination. They can be very productive humans if they’re not crushed and defeated in school.
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end of that quote, and beginning of requests for brainstorming, or researching.

The only thing I found, I rejected as harmful to unschooling AND to schooling. It was a Malaysian study comparing “high achieving” students with “normal” students. Nowhere in the study did they discuss the aspect of the competition of school itself. If those they called “high achieving” had been removed, some of the “normal” students would have become the “high achievers.”


MY QUESTION:

Are there other known-and-accepted combos? Is this something someone has written about, personality types?

I think “gamers” aren’t very likely to play rugby.

It seems girls who like ballet or gymnastics as kids are also unlikely to play rugby.

It might seem that I have something against rugby. The only two people I know well who have played rugby are my husband (also one of those dyslexic engineer types, who played football in Jr. High and dropped out because he wouldn’t cut his hair off in high school, and did marching band instead) and my best friend from college, who has never worn a dress or skirt as far as I know since she was a kid. Absolutely no ballet or gymnastics in her life. :-)

Will a bullrider more likely fix a car or paint with acrylics?

It’s not politically correct to ask, but maybe someone, somewhere knows or cares. Maybe advertising research, so they know what commercials to show during which what.

Maybe it’s genetic, those combinations. Maybe someone who is a musical prodigy will be more likely to do paintings than to ride bulls.

Not maybe.

But I can’t prove it.

http://sandradodd.com/intelligences

Sandra

Connie Coyle


Yes. The MBTI (Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator) asks a series of questions that helps identify ones personality type. I have been asked to do the MBTI assessment at work. My older girls (teens) and I have all taken the MBTI for fun. 


This is a quote from the page: "Perception involves all the ways of becoming aware of things, people, happenings, or ideas. Judgment involves all the ways of coming to conclusions about what has been perceived. If people differ systematically in what they perceive and in how they reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ correspondingly in their interests, reactions, values, motivations, and skills."

One of the things that I really like about MBTI is that it emphasizes that ALL TYPES ARE EQUAL! 

Connie

On Sunday, February 3, 2019, 2:59:58 PM CST, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:


 

I tried to look for a topic I’ve never heard of. :-) In a way.

In another topic (School vs. Unschooling, my third post there), I wrote this:

It happens that there is a skill in seeing things in a three-dimensional way, and in being able to reverse and rotate objects mentally. Engineering comes of that. And most people called dyslexic are boys. And many people whose strongest intelligence is mathematical and spatial reasoning are boys, and those can come as a set.

I went to look for other sets of intelligences. I’ll take that to another topic, but dyslexia isn’t created so much as it is a natural part of seeing for MANY, many people. Mostly male.
…. Some have that math/engineering/dyslexia combination. They can be very productive humans if they’re not crushed and defeated in school.
_________________
end of that quote, and beginning of requests for brainstorming, or researching.

The only thing I found, I rejected as harmful to unschooling AND to schooling. It was a Malaysian study comparing “high achieving” students with “normal” students. Nowhere in the study did they discuss the aspect of the competition of school itself. If those they called “high achieving” had been removed, some of the “normal” students would have become the “high achievers.”

MY QUESTION:

Are there other known-and-accepted combos? Is this something someone has written about, personality types?

I think “gamers” aren’t very likely to play rugby.

It seems girls who like ballet or gymnastics as kids are also unlikely to play rugby.

It might seem that I have something against rugby. The only two people I know well who have played rugby are my husband (also one of those dyslexic engineer types, who played football in Jr. High and dropped out because he wouldn’t cut his hair off in high school, and did marching band instead) and my best friend from college, who has never worn a dress or skirt as far as I know since she was a kid. Absolutely no ballet or gymnastics in her life. :-)

Will a bullrider more likely fix a car or paint with acrylics?

It’s not politically correct to ask, but maybe someone, somewhere knows or cares. Maybe advertising research, so they know what commercials to show during which what.

Maybe it’s genetic, those combinations. Maybe someone who is a musical prodigy will be more likely to do paintings than to ride bulls.

Not maybe.

But I can’t prove it.

http://sandradodd.com/intelligences

Sandra

sukaynalabboun@...



-- Good friend in high school was captain of Water Polo, competitive ocean distance swimmer, and loved to bake and sew. He was about 6'4, and shaved in fourth grade, but was a very mellow guy. Was great at math, in AP classes (with me), but I read all the books aloud to him since reading himself was harder for him. He was great at programming before that was such a big thing, too. Mixed intelligences?


On Feb 3, 2019, at 10:59 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:

I tried to look for a topic I’ve never heard of. :-)  In a way.

In another topic (School vs. Unschooling, my third post there), I wrote this:

It happens that there is a skill in seeing things in a three-dimensional way, and in being able to reverse and rotate objects mentally. Engineering comes of that. And most people called dyslexic are boys. And many people whose strongest intelligence is mathematical and spatial reasoning are boys, and those can come as a set.

I went to look for other sets of intelligences.  I’ll take that to another topic, but dyslexia isn’t created so much as it is a natural part of seeing for MANY, many people.  Mostly male.
….  Some have that math/engineering/dyslexia combination.  They can be very productive  humans if they’re not crushed and defeated in school.
_________________
end of that quote, and beginning of requests for brainstorming, or researching.

The only thing I found, I rejected as harmful to unschooling AND to schooling.  It was a Malaysian study comparing “high achieving” students with “normal” students.  Nowhere in the study did they discuss the aspect of the competition of school itself.  If those they called “high achieving” had been removed, some of the “normal” students would have become the “high achievers.”    


MY QUESTION:

Are there other known-and-accepted combos?  Is this something someone has written about, personality types?

I think “gamers” aren’t very likely to play rugby.

It seems girls who like ballet or gymnastics as kids are also unlikely to play rugby.

It might seem that I have something against rugby.  The only two people I know well who have played rugby are my husband (also one of those dyslexic engineer types, who played football in Jr. High and dropped out because he wouldn’t cut his hair off in high school, and did marching band instead) and my best friend from college, who has never worn a dress or skirt as far as I know since she was a kid.  Absolutely no ballet or gymnastics in her life. :-)

Will a bullrider more likely fix a car or paint with acrylics?

It’s not politically correct to ask, but maybe someone, somewhere knows or cares.  Maybe advertising research, so they know what commercials to show during which what.   

Maybe it’s genetic, those combinations.  Maybe someone who is a musical prodigy will be more likely to do paintings than to ride bulls.

Not maybe.

But I can’t prove it.

http://sandradodd.com/intelligences

Sandra

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