Thinking-related poll
Aug. 4th, 2004 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietPete & I were discussing, among other things, reading this morning. So, a poll:
[Poll #330828]
I need a 'reading' icon.
[Poll #330828]
I need a 'reading' icon.
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Date: 2004-08-04 08:51 pm (UTC)I found that there was interesting correlations between people's reading speed and how they handled information as well as whether they thought in words or pictures. I am hoping to do more research into this area when I have money/experience and of course funding.
I don't think in pictures, I don't usually find pictures helpful and i have to decode diagrams to make sense of them. I am very much a verbal person and think in words. I don't really subvocalise ever, in fact I loathe reading aloud as a concept not least cos it fouls up my speech something chronic (I am partially deaf and start sounding deaf when I read aloud).
I know many people who can read non-fiction quickly, or on a screen quickly, but struggle more with fiction or 'real books'. Like someone said above a correlation of this data would be cool, especially if you could get more data about participants lifestyles, experiences and occupations.
Argh, must not talk about research, have to do jobhunting not research.
Natalya
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Date: 2004-08-05 02:06 pm (UTC)I think in words, although (as mentioned above somewhere) when reading (good) fiction it's more like seeing a play or film or similar going on in my head. But when I'm talking myself I can kind of 'see' the words in my head as I speak them.
On the other hand, I have a very visual memory - if getting directions to a place, for example, a map is best, written directions OK, and verbal directions utterly useless. I can't handle spoken stuff at all well - I find it very difficult to concentrate on and virtually impossible to remember (this doesn't apply to conversations so much, because of the activity of taking part - lectures were utterly useless, though).
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Date: 2004-08-05 03:14 pm (UTC)If you want to download a copy there are PDF, PS and RTF versions which you can check out. Note the RTF was a horrible kludge and some of the formatting and referencing is broken, I only put it there as a crappy option. These are available at http://www.barakta.org.uk/dissertation/.
I find that knowing I don't find pictures helpful is useful to me as a person cos I will make sure I have time to translate picture data into sections of word data. When I read a map I have to work out the directions as a sequence of instructions, I cannot instinctively read a map and in the past have been laughed at for being very slow. I am making myself do it more and more so that I can improve my ability to translate pictorial data to words in real time.
Oh and be warned the dissertation is about 8000 words for the main section and a further 5000 for the appendices. I hope my writing style isn't too awful (I don't write well).
Natalya