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> > I'm a highly visual thinker

> Most people of average IQ say that.

I seriously question that. Can you point us to any evidence that people of average IQ are most often visual thinkers? (Or most often say that they're visual thinkers, if that's where you were going with this.)

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I cannot. I am merely calling out that fact that "I'm a visual thinker" is almost always used as a justification for not being able to keep up. Sort of like saying "My other car is a Porsche."

Is it not possible that different people will have an easier or harder time understanding different kinds of concepts? Maybe IQ favors a particular type of "non-visual" thinking. Or maybe IQ is just another pile of bullshit from the field of physchology.

there are lots of people who are not visual thinkers - see "Aphantasia"

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