Multiple intelligences: which are you?

[mix]

cross posted from lounge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences

[rucky]

1. Howard Gardner!

Found this quiz, too...

http://literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

:thumbsup:

[NMDemDist2]

2. kick til later n/t

[ProleNoMore]

3. Fascinating

eom

[LWolf]

4. All of them.

We all are.

The theory says that some are stronger, some weaker.

My strengths: verbal/linguistic, intrapersonal, existentialist, naturalist.

My weak areas: visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, musical/rhythmic

[LeftHander]

5. They missed one...

Bat Shit Crazy

Republican Congressman
Media Executive
Faith Healer

[Odin2005]

6. My strengths are Visual-Spatial, Logical-Mathematical, and Existentialist.

I think visually, "in pictures" (like autistic animal behaviorist Temple Grandin), I was shocked when I learned that most people think in words

[pipi_k]

8. I think mostly in pictures/images too

which is why I sometimes get into trouble by laughing at stuff that doesn't seem funny to other people.

I get little "movies" in my head...endless loops, sometimes that play themselves over and over again and won't stop until I've laughed myself sick.

Thinking in pictures/images also makes it real hard for me to communicate verbally. Not so much in writing, as I can stop for a while and try to translate my thoughts from pictures into words. Speaking isn't so easy. Sometimes I wish I could just open up my head and show people the pictures that are in my mind and they would understand what I'm trying to say.

I've actually seen people screw up their faces and look rather pained when I'm speaking, like they're trying to make sense of a monkey's chatterings.

It's very frustrating. :(

[juno jones]

10. LOL!

I know the feeling. It doesn't help that I have a total disconnect from my tongue at times. I do best after people get to know me a bit. When I'm totally comfortable shit just rolls off.

[Odin2005]

22. Oh wow, that sounds exactly like me!

[juno jones]

9. I think that's why my son loves movies.

The picture is easier for him to 'see'.

[DKRC]

12. I see pics/video when I think

depends on the idea or information ~ so you're not alone. Small comfort I'm sure. :rofl:

Visual-spatial, Social, & Nature are my strongest results on the quiz at the top. On the Birmingham Grid for Learning my strongest results were Visual/Spatial, Naturalistic, & Linguistic.

My x-husband said I had a UTD (Uterine Tracking Device) because he'd lose his checkbook/wallet/keys, but I could always tell him where they were when asked. I wasn't aware of mentally mapping everything, but it came in handy. All I did was "see" what was in the immediate area around them & I could tell him where he'd left them.
I am also a champion cargo packer. I can put more stuff into everything from a Geo Metro to a 28ft moving truck just by looking at the items & then "seeing" where everything goes. Then it's just a matter of putting the pieces into place in the right order so it looks the way I "saw" it.

[pipi_k]

16. hee hee...UTD....

same here...Mr Pip goes crazy looking for stuff.

I imagine myself BEING something and then asking, now, if I were this object, where would I be?

There's another strange thing I do involving jigsaw puzzles. Once a puzzle is half-finished, I can often just look at a blank space and automatically find the piece that fits there. Sort of like radar or something.

Maybe it's a bit like being a mathematical savant or something where the person just does it without knowing how or why it happens. I ask myself how do I do the puzzle thing but I don't know.

[DKRC]

21. The questions on these tests

made me pause a moment to think about HOW I do things. Normally it's just another tool in my toolbox, I don't question it too much, just use it.

There's another strange thing I do involving jigsaw puzzles. Once a puzzle is half-finished, I can often just look at a blank space and automatically find the piece that fits there. Sort of like radar or something.

Sounds like the mental mapping I do when I'm packing. You're not aware that you're scanning & mapping the puzzle pieces, you just begin picking up the next right piece.

[Johonny]

7. I don't believe in this theory

[mix]

11. Why? nt

[Johonny]

17. It appears to be more an artifact of the testing method

not necessarily a functionary explanation of how your brain really works.

[Odin2005]

23. Actually, Gardiner developed the theory from observation and neuropsychological research.

The tests came out of the theory, not the other way around.

[aikoaiko]

13. Has this theory ever been verified through factor analysis where each intelligence is

orthogonal (independent and uncorrelated).


The last I looked at this was when I read Gardner's book and was baffled when he said he used an "intuitive" factor analysis to "validate" the model. There is no such thing as an intuitive factor analysis.

:shrug:

[supernova]

14. My Strengths/Weaknesses

Strengths:

4.57 Language

4.43 Musical

4.14 Social


2nd Tier Strengths:

Self 3.86

Spacial 3.71 This is a higher than I would have thought. I thought this ability was more connected to math, but maybe not? :shrug: I am almost never lost, I can "see" myself on a map. I always seem to know where I am in relation to the natural world.)

Nature 3.43

Weaknesses:

Kinesthetic: 2 Never was very athletic. I can get in shape through working out, but I don't enjoy team sports


Logical/Math: 1.86 I detest a lot of math. Unless it's solving for something specific, like how far away another star is, it just seems like a language which I have always been lousy at learning.

[pipi_k]

18. another math hater here

In fact, I call myself a "mathematical moron" because I hate it so much and am so bad at it.

Which is sort of weird, in a way, because I've heard that Science and Math often go together, and I absolutely love Science.


But when I see numbers, my mind shuts off. It may as well be written in a foreign language. Which I suppose is what it is...

[HughMoran]

15. Intrapersonal /logical/mathematical /visual/spatial /existentialist

Depends on my mood/time of year.

[csziggy]

19. Nature (4.14), Self (3.86) & Musical (3.57)

I suck at Logic/Math (2.57), Interpersonal (2.57) and Body Movement (1.86).

Interesting concept.

[Avalux]

20. Intrapersonal - researcher.

Self-regulated learning, being in touch with one's own mental processing.

That's me!

[Greyhound]

24. I excel in five of those categories. n/t