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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/2/2005 12:42:48 AM
From: brian h	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217736

Maurice, I enjoy your little test more. Your Brain Usage Profile: Auditory : 62% Visual : 37% Left : 64% Right : 35% BH, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance. You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in. By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others. Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory. To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/2/2005 1:25:49 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217736

Nice test M... I think I would have been more right had I sped through the test.... I thought of this after reviewing the questions... Your Brain Usage Profile: Auditory : 56% Visual : 43% Left : 55% Right : 44% =========== K, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance. You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in. By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others. Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory. To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/2/2005 4:15:04 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217736

Your Brain Usage Profile: Auditory : 29% Visual : 70% Left : 55% Right : 44% TobagoJack, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always. Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself. Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem. Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions. You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole." With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/2/2005 10:08:27 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217736

I came out about the same as you, mildly right brained, stronger preference for auditory over visual. I am a good listener, but a good reader as well, but I do remember things I've heard better than things I've read. Auditory : 68% Visual : 31% Left : 44% Right : 55% I believe we also came out the closest on the political spectrum. In Myers-Briggs, I am either INTP or ENTP. Balance between I and E is very close. I hate going to parties, but if there are people I know, I have a good time talking to them, and can also talk to strangers, which I think is the tie-breaker towards E, do social events make you feel energized or drained? I feel both, so still tied. My husband, who claims to be I, loves social events, to the extent of joining the Masons and the Shriners, and planning on joining the Knights Templar.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/2/2005 10:53:17 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 217736

Very interesting, Mq. I am: Auditory : 53% Visual : 46% Left : 57% Right : 42% It told me I should be a lawyer, a teacher, or a scientist. Good to know I made the right professional choice.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/2/2005 3:28:26 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217736

Test the test, Mq, by taking the right brain/left brain dominanace test linked below to see if you get more or less the same scores as you got before. It's a bit obvious, but fun nonetheless. brain.web-us.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/2/2005 11:08:58 PM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217736

Spotted Cat pointed me to do this test. My right is pretty weak.. Auditory : 37% Visual : 62% Left : 82% Right : 17% Sexton, you are strongly left-hemisphere dominant and show somewhat of a preference for visual learning, a positive combination of styles. Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that you are strongly organized, logical and detail-oriented. Visual preference indicates that you learn in an active, simultaneous multidimensional fashion. With this pattern you would likely be good in fields such as engineering, architecture, drafting, computer graphics and the like. It is likely that you will find situations which demand auditory processing somewhat frustrating unless you can impose your own structures and categories while processing it. Another possible barrier to using your talents to the fullest may be the excess attention that you can tend to give details in your day-to- day operations and learning. You can acknowledge the existence of "the bigger picture" but concentrate on the details and expect that the picture will emerge from the details themselves. You strive towards goals and this, coupled with the active nature of your learning preference, creates a sense of you being "driven." Your tolerance of ambiguity is, at times, in conflict with your preference for the straight path and directness in everything. You tend to be as impatient with yourself as you are with others. You have enough auditory learning capability to somewhat balance your more natural chaotic learning style. It is likely that you "slide into" the more sequential auditory learning mode when you get frustrated with the amount of input to be processed. You are somewhat likely to be driven and distracted, but you have some capability for articulating and visualizing goals, which helps to reduce frustration. You can listen to others, but not without occasional agitation. There are times when your left hemisphere cannot categorize your learnings and place them in context, because that is the domain of the right hemisphere. I am a computer programmer. The biggest error is the organized part. I tend to agree with the first two paragraphs, save for the organized part. That is (not one of.. but IS) my biggest weakness.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/3/2005 5:34:48 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217736

The test I think suffers from the fact that we are changeable and malleable and not necessarily left/right or visual/auditory all of the time. Take the test again. I'll wager you'll get a different result. I did, perfectly 50/50 right/left and nearly 50/50 visual audio. Not a good thing, apparently. But I suspect that I process things differently while wearing a coat and tie and thinking like a lawyer than I do on a relaxed weekend: >>carranza, you are one of those rare individuals who are perfectly "balanced" in both your hemispheric tendencies and your sensory learning preferences. However, there is both good news and bad news. A problem with hemispheric balance is that you will tend to feel more conflict than someone who has a clearly established dominance. At times the conflict will be between what you feel and what you think but will also involve how you attack problems and how you perceive information. Details which will seem important to the right hemis- phere will be discounted by the left and vice versa, which can present a hindrance to learning efficiently. In the same vein, you may have a problem with organization. You might organize your time and/or space only to feel the need to reorganize five to ten weeks later. On the positive side, you bring resources to problem-solving that others may not have. You can perceive the "big picture" and the essential details simultaneously and maintain the cognitive perspective required. You possess sufficient verbal skills to translate your intuition into a form which can be understood by others while still being able to access ideas and concepts which do not lend themselves to language. Your balanced nature might lead you to second-guess yourself in artistic endeavors, losing some of the fluidity, spontaneity and creativity that otherwise would be yours. With your balanced sensory styles, you process data alternately, at times visually and other times auditorially. This usage of separate memories may cause you to require more time to integrate information or re-access it. When presented with situations which force purely visual or purely auditory learning, increased anxiety is likely and your learning efficiency will decrease. Your greatest benefit is that you can succeed in multiple fields due to the great plasticity and flexibility you possess.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2510)	12/4/2005 2:46:31 AM
From: Roebear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217736

Auditory 23% Visual 76% Left 68% Right 31% Summary the same as TJ's [My comments in brackets]: you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always. [yup] Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself. [How many minutes till market open/close?] Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem. [As in why the heck did I buy this stock??] Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions. [Yeah, you ought to see me run my screens in the morning, lol!] You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole." [I've taken other tests that indicate I've got exceptional big picture skills while also seeing the details, but I definitely prefer others to deal with those details, i.e., a perfect manager] With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times. [I had to laugh, because it seems to describe a stock trader pretty well, especially this last paragraph!] Roebear