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How do you think in Maths?
In numerical form? 29%  29%  [ 4 ]
In word form? 7%  7%  [ 1 ]
In picture form? 43%  43%  [ 6 ]
In another way? 21%  21%  [ 3 ]
Total votes : 14

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05 Oct 2023, 4:07 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
rse if you picture a numeral like 7, you know its value and what it represents like seven dots. Same thing for me when I think of 7, but I don’t see the numeral. I see the colour which my brain understands as representing seven dots.


I acknowledge and agree. In the end, though, you need the numbers to do the math. I actually find your experience fascinating. I have no faculties like that, other than a real ability to think outside the box.



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05 Oct 2023, 4:09 pm

rse92 wrote:
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rse if you picture a numeral like 7, you know its value and what it represents like seven dots. Same thing for me when I think of 7, but I don’t see the numeral. I see the colour which my brain understands as representing seven dots.


In the end, though, you need the numbers to do the math.

Evidence please.


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05 Oct 2023, 4:09 pm

In Primary they used to time-test me with a page of 100 times table questions to answer with a pencil.

I could do it perfectly in under a minute, usually around 52 seconds. It astounded my teachers and peers.

Maybe I’ll look for an example and everyone can print it and try it themselves.

How you see the answers in your mind doesn’t matter.

All methods will be welcomed.


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05 Oct 2023, 4:09 pm

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Maybe next time avoid saying this:
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For goodness sakes I’m not giving your partner a hard time.


Maybe next time don’t accuse me of being a racist.



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05 Oct 2023, 4:13 pm

Just like the woman in the video, I didn’t know I had synaesthesia until first year of Uni in a a psych class. We read about it.

Prior to that I knew I saw the colours but I thought it was normal or everyone else did the same.

OK gotta go!


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05 Oct 2023, 4:21 pm

rse92 wrote:
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Maybe next time avoid saying this:
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For goodness sakes I’m not giving your partner a hard time.


Maybe next time don’t accuse me of being a racist.

I didn’t. :|

Having a lot of women in one’s life does not mean that sexist attitudes can’t be present. That’s all I was saying.


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06 Oct 2023, 9:43 am

No one can point to a single post I have made which exhibits “sexist attitudes.” That’s because I don’t have them.

I’m hard on a lot of men on here. I think men should act like men and that’s that. Not like simps, not like whiners who complain about how sh-t life has been to them when they won’t take any responsibility or get off their arses to do something about it. I’ve been to hell and back. I could have moped about my bad fortune and lived in rags for the rest of my life, but I got on with it and rebuilt my career and my life.



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06 Oct 2023, 9:48 am

Okay, then what did you mean by this?

rse92 wrote:
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I admit to skepticism about some of these responses.



I admit to confusion about your reasons why.


None of you, nor I either, at the end of the day can do math without reducing it to numerals. Not even the fellow who thinks in dots. Without numerals those dots make no sense even to him.

Evidence please.


For goodness sakes I’m not giving your partner a hard time.

I'm not sure how a request for evidence has anything to do with a partner. I don't have one.

I don't think men and women should be treated differently.


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