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Discussion on: What type of learner are you? And why it matters!

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Vesa Piittinen • Edited

You got it a bit wrong. The zero in Aural is not "why", but how much you give it value. It is not the input, it is the output. What you said is the explanation, the input, and that is why Aural is 0. When doing the test you reflect each answer you give to the expected result you will get. And that is why this test and personality tests are such a failure.

For example I get 100% introversion in every personality test I take, because I value it so much more than extroversion, and thus each of my answers I give gets reflected into the result. You could even say I'm purposefully aiming for hitting the 100% introversion score.

I'm not 100% introverted. I just value being introverted. Same for you: you are no incapable of learning by aural means. You just don't value it at all.

EDIT! Seeing the post I replied to got deleted I guess my message might've been a bit too blunt by being so direct. My intent was not to cause shame or other negative feeling, so if it did I'm sorry.

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Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D

I agree with the central thesis here - which is that all these "Tests" are in some sense indicative of our own biases and preferences, and not rooted in any scientific or genetic predisposition to be better at one than the other.

Going forward, I am going to think of these as learning strategies and not personalized styles. Each strategy uses a different combination of our senses to provide input and derive insight. And what we get out of each is likely to be proportional to how much we prefer (prioritize) and practice (upskill) our learning journeys using that option