Sunday, August 24

Only Slightly Left-Brained

So I was just playing yet another silly game on fb, and I have to comment on what I learned. The Brain Game only lists Right and Left brain as responses to the first question, but I admit, it actually left me in a quandary. It shows you an image and asks you a question about it for which it presents only 2 answers. Is the dancer spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? It took me a minute to figure that out because logically, I could see that as a 2D figure, she is spinning both ways depending on your perspective. Ultimately I chose counter after analyzing her "shadow" and the position of her feet relative to the "floor", but I knew that my rationalization was still untrue and that there's no correct answer. She seemed to be going left to me and I associate left with counter, but that's a linguistic analysis, not exactly what they were going for... So, I got labelled Left Brained.

Then it gives me this game that it tells me is "difficult" for left brained people, and I ace it. Then I aced it again.

I've always thought being dual-brained was cool since my 9th grade bio teacher (in Luray, amazing woman) talked with us about it and gave us a simple test. I came out of that one left brained too, but borderline -- just like the Myers-Briggs said 4 years later, and Emode when it still existed. I find it fascinating how again and again all these different little tests from many different places come out with similar results, which often contradict how I perceive myself to be in "real" life. Yeah, I only wish I were as cool as my bio teacher. =)

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