Interesting...

So I've taken tons of those i.q., Myers-Briggs, personality, and ennegram tests. But today I took my first left-brain, right-brain tests. I always have parents talking to me about how they are right-brain and that's why they don't understand math and why their children don't understand math and all that jazz. So out of curiosity I decided to take one.

I mean if you are left-brain you are rigid, routine and analytical. If you are right-brained you are musical, artsy and creative right? But I've always been confused by this. I mean I'm extremely good at math, I'm highly analytical, but I enjoy creating new things, being musical, and I'm extremely visual. If my head wasn't attached I don't think I would ever manage to keep track of it, but at the same time I keep track of projects and deadlines for my department at work. Something isn't right, I can feel it. I also weird my students out when we are doing math problems and I say their answer "feels" wrong even though I haven't worked it out yet. Then we analyze it and it is wrong and they ask how did I do that.

It appeared that I was bi-brained :) So I decided to take the quiz, only to have it confirmed, I was 50/50. I guess my logic and my intuition were right. I only had one quibble with the quality of the tests that I was taking. It asked questions in a dichotomous manner that made it extremely difficult to answer. It kept saying there was no right or wrong, but I kept thinking why can't I pick both, shouldn't there be a continuum here. I mean I like multiple choice, but we should have more flexibility in our choices.

One question was which is easier, algebra or geometry. I thought they are both at an equal level of easiness. I can do them both in my sleep. They both make sense. I don't prefer one of the other. They both have their elegance and beauty and they have a high degree of overlap.

This leads me to assume the test was made by right-brained people trying to "categorize" left brained people because any left brained person would know that in essence for the average person the level of difficulty is the same. Now they should ask the question do you prefer Linear Algebra or Statistics and maybe it would have been a better question.

Oooh it just occured to me that it could be left-brained people trying to "categorize" right brained people and that's why they would make a question like that to through you off in an attempt to be "random", that is so left-brained to be random in an organized and predictable way. Those left-brainers are funny.

Ahhh...enough musing I have an early morning meeting with some no brainers and I'll need all my left-brained ability to sit through it without wanting to jump on the table and start dancing. Then all my right-brained ability to stay entertained when my mind wanders off.

As always have a good day and enjoy.