STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

are you visual, auditory or kinesthetic?

halleybird · Hermes

Visual, definitely. I used to require my freshmen to do a learning styles inventory at the beginning of the year. It's really tremendously helpful when you're trying to take classes or just learn something new. Here's one inventory you can take:

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/ts/style.html

I actually think the multiple-intelligences learning style inventory is more helpful (if only because it's more specific):
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm

(My "intelligences" are intrapersonal, linguistic and logical.)

-- Edited by halleybird at 23:19, 2007-10-04

Kelly · Hermes

well, I took the test that Halleybird suggested (the 1st one) and I had 5 points in auditory and visual, and 6 points in kinesthetic. So I guess I'm kind of equal all around :)

Teresa · Kate Spade

Dizzy wrote:

2) I think I have a very visual learning style. I could learn in law school only after I SAW all the elements on the page. I hated class. It was impossible to follow along. But once I saw the material mapped out in an outline, I was fine. And I remember just begging my profs to tell me, "What is this supposed to look like? What does a good answer look like? What do you need to see..." And they would just get really puzzled. "Well, it depends." "I don't need to SEE anything, I need to know you did the work..." It was like being in a foreign country. But at my job, we all speak the same language.

oh my gosh, I cant tell you how good that makes me feel! I am a definite visual person. I have this one professor who loves to sound smart and use really big words and make things so much more complicated than they need to be and I'm always like, "sooo, can you show us an example" or "are you going to give this to us in writing" and everyone always rolls there eyes because I'm "that girl" but YOU are smart and it makes me feel better that a smart girl like you feels the same way sometimes too!

atlgirl · Gucci

Halleybird, your first url brings me to an error page. Can you make that a link or check on it...please? I'm really interested in trying the test.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

I took hallybirds test and got 7 for visual, 7 for kinesthetic, and 2 for auditory. That seems pretty accurate to me. My "intelligences" are very high for logical and visual/spacial with kinesthtic and intapersonal tied right behind them. I was really low on all the others.

-- Edited by ILoveChoo at 09:35, 2007-10-05

pollyjean23 · Marc Jacobs

I have taken a learning assessment in the past and scored evenly on all 3. I'll take the one suggested here and see if there is any difference.

...very close on all 3 again. Lowest of the close scores is kinesthetic cuz I'm not very hands-on.

-- Edited by pollyjean23 at 22:06, 2007-10-07

blubirde · Chanel

I took HB's test but I could have told you the results beforehand: Kinesthetic. I'm just a touchy kind of gal, I guess.

I remember once taking a "hearing" test in school to decide if that was your learning type and the story was about mining for gold in Africa or something like that. My version? I thought it was about aliens finding rubies on Mars. Not kidding. It was designed to weed out the non-auditory learners but still, that's pretty bad.

Law school was a bitch for me, too, Dizzy. The classes I excelled in were the ones that were practical situations - trials, clinics, etc. All the reading and listening in other classes not only bored me to tears but were practically worthless. I might have nightmares tonight after thinking about this so much! *shudder*

As for HB's other test, I tied on the first three - Kinaesthetic (Body Smart), Musical (Music Smart), and Interpersonal (People Smart). Linguistic (Word Smart) and Logical (Number Smart) were very close behind. The music one is a bit misleading because I have many years of musical training - it's not necessarily natural.

dangergirl · Kate Spade

in the first test, i got 11 for auditory, 4 for kinesthetic and only 1 for visual, which i expected as i revise by discussing things with other people and by reading aloud to myself.

in the other test, my intelligences were kinaesthetic (body smart), linguistic (word smart) and interpersonal (people smart), and i scored really low on visual/spatial and musical. i'm not sure whether being an auditory learner and having zero musical intelligence are kind of contradictory lol but never mind

halleybird · Hermes

atlgirl wrote:

Halleybird, your first url brings me to an error page. Can you make that a link or check on it...please? I'm really interested in trying the test.

try this -- for some reason it won't let me make a link

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/ts/stylest.html

-- Edited by halleybird at 16:22, 2007-10-05

Sibeski · Dooney & Bourke

On the first test I scored...
5 Visual
5 Auditory
6 Kinesthetic
Don't know if that explains my complete inability to see som'n one-dimensional and make it 3-D in my head. Yup, I was the dorky-girl building models in o-chem.

My top 3 on the second test
1. Intrapersonal (I was just described at opinionated yesterday, heehee)
2. Linguistic
3. Naturalistic

kenzie · Chanel

I took both tests and for the first one the results were visual. Although, I had difficulty choosing some answers between visual and auditory because sometimes I do both of the choices depending on my mood at the time. I would say I'm more of an even split between visual and auditory.

The results for the second test were:

1. musical
2. visual
3. linguistic

Not surprised by this at all. I've always been highly involved in creative and musical activities and I work in a linguistic and visual field.

-- Edited by kenzie at 08:32, 2007-10-06

HeatherLynn · Gucci

Mine are definitely what I would have expected. In the first test kinesthetic with a close second visual and only 2 as auditory. In the second test I am Logical, Interpersonal, then Visual/Spatial. As an engineer thats definitely what I expected. =)

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

Thanks for the test Halleybird! And Collegegirl, don't worry. Everyone feels dumb in law school. That's how it works. The only difference is that some people react by trying to make themselves sound smarter and smarter and some people freak (I was a freaker). Oh, and sorry about the bad memories Bluebirde. (You went to a better school than I did, too. I'd heard things were better higher up on the rankings list).

atlgirl · Gucci

Thanks, Halleybird. I enjoyed both of this. Interesting results:

on the first test, my results came back all linguistic! There was nothing in the other categories at all.

on the second test, I had 5 answers in visual, 11 in auditory, and 0 in kinesthetic.

esquiress · Marc Jacobs

I'm most definitely an auditory learner. The test confirmed it (1 Visual, 12 Auditory, 3 Kinestethic).

I'm a major talker and listener. Writing comes next, after I've got it sorted in my head.

In law school, my study partner and I would read the outlines out loud to each other and ask each other questions when we studied. That's why we could never study in the library, we'd have disturbed the other students. And when we were studying for the Bar, my friends and I were giving each other X-Manish names to describe our strengths and I got "SoundWave" because if someone said it/explained it, I remembered it.

I wish my Kinesthetic sense was higher though because I'd love to be able to pick up dance choreography really quickly or have a naturally good sense of direction--is that related to the kinesthetic sense? or is that something else?

ETA:

Here are my scores for the other test:

Linguistic: over the 20 mark on the pie chart

Interpersonal: over the 20 mark but not as much as the linguistic

Logical: right under the 15 mark

Visual/Spatial: about halfway between the 10 and the 15 marks.

Intrapersonal: right over the 10 mark

Musical: right under the 10 mark

Naturalistic: right under the 10 mark (just like the musical)

Kinesthetic: right over the 5 mark.

-- Edited by esquiress at 19:54, 2007-10-24

joy0302 · Kate Spade

On the first test I got a 9 in visual, a 5 in auditory and a 2 in kinesthetic. On the second one I scored highest in linguistic, with visual and interpersonal right behind. The rest I scored just about evenly on. I think those are very acurate. I can only remember things if I see them written down.