alt Hacker NewsPlease explain explicitly what you are implying, because I don't get it
Who are the 1/3 of the population that does not reason by analogy?
Please explain explicitly what you are implying, because I don't get it
Who are the 1/3 of the population that does not reason by analogy?
Instead of needing a familiar metaphor to understand a new system (reasoning by analogy), they grasp the core conceptual mechanics directly.
It’s not that the 2/3 can't think abstractly, it’s just that they use analogies as a temporary processing step to get there, while the 1/3 starts there.