{"id":2232,"date":"2007-08-20T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/grasp-gaps\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:21:58","slug":"grasp-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/grasp-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasp Gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I took an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highiqsociety.org\/iq_tests\/\">online IQ test<\/a> today. I usually avoid such things &#8212; they threaten the delicate balance between arrogance and shame. I will say that the verbal stuff &#8212; analogies, in particular &#8212; was easy. The math was harder. The SATs told me that years ago. But there were several spatial\/graphical examples that I never grasped. I truly had no clue what was expected of me. At times like that, my left brain punts to my right brain: Here, you figure this out! Perhaps I should have used my left hand to make those selections. For all I know, my right brain pulled it off &#8212; he can&#8217;t say, really. My left brain is still miffed. He&#8217;ll be in his room for hours throwing books and toys to let the whole house know he&#8217;s suffered a grave injustice. Ah, but nothing coaxes him out of his corner quite like a tasty metaphor. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took an online IQ test today. I usually avoid such things &#8212; they threaten the delicate balance between arrogance and shame. I will say that the verbal stuff &#8212; analogies, in particular &#8212; was easy. The math was harder. The SATs told me that years ago. But there were several spatial\/graphical examples that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/grasp-gaps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grasp Gaps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}