Impulsive Test-Taking

[kerravonsen]

I am up far too late, but I made the mistake of looking at LJs and synaesthete7 had this Multiple Intelligence Test thing, so I did it too.

The Seven Intelligence Areas

• Linguistic: 10
  
• Logical-Mathematical: 10
  
• Musical: 9
  
• Intrapersonal: 7
  
• Spatial: 4
  
• Bodily-Kinesthetic: 3
  
• Interpersonal: 2
  

A Short Definition of your Highest Scores

Linguistic - the ability to use language to describe events, to build trust and rapport, to develop logical arguments and use rhetoric, or to be expressive and metaphoric. Possible vocations that use linguistic intelligence include journalism, administrator, contractor, salesperson, clergy, counselors, lawyers, professor, philosopher, playwright, poet, advertising copywriter and novelist.

Logical-Mathematical - the ability to use numbers to compute and describe, to use mathematical concepts to make conjectures, to apply mathematics in personal daily life, to apply mathematics to data and construct arguments, to be sensitive to the patterns, symmetry, logic, and aesthetics of mathematics, and to solve problems in design and modeling. Possible vocations that use the logical-mathematics intelligence include accountant, bookkeeper, statistician, tradesperson, homemaker, computer programmer, scientist, composer, engineer, inventor, or designer.

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I was sort of surprised to see such a high "musical" component, but I guess most of my family is pretty musical; it had to rub off somehow. The only reason I don't play an instrument is that I can't be bothered.

The "aesthetics of mathematics" -- how cool! Most people don't even realize there's beauty in it. They get baffled to hear programmers talk about "elegance" in programs...

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't! Mathematics is beautiful, and a well-written program should have a pleasing shape with simple lines and crystalline transparency. This is hard to explain, but code has shape and colour too, and badly-written stuff is like a dark jungle full of creepers you have to hack your way through.

[kerravonsen]

and badly-written stuff is like a dark jungle full of creepers you have to hack your way through.

Oh, that's an even better simile than "spaghetti code"!

To take the analogy even further, revising badly-written code is like trying to weed a garden-turned to dark tropical jungle, where some of the creepers are weeds and other creepers are passionfruit vines, so you can't use a machete because that might kill the passionfruit.
We don't talk about "disentangling" code for nothing...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And some of the gardens have proud owners who resent any attempts to prune...