I do think that, at least to an extent, somebody who is particularly good at thinking in one way may be perceived as thinking poorly in another way due to thinking too good in the way they are good at thinking in. They might see patterns that are correct but obscure, in that a person who is good at thinking in the other way would immediately see a simpler pattern. For example, on one IQ test I took I was presented with the following problem: O[] is to []O as OO[] is to what? In symbols only: O[] | []O OO[] | ? Now the answer that immediately comes to my mind is O[] | []O OO[] |[][]O but the correct answer given was O[] | []O OO[] | []OO The pattern that I see is one of binary inversion, where there is a circle in the first half there is a rectangle in the second half, where there is a rectangle in the first half there is a circle in the second half. Apparently most people are much more likely to see reflection than inversion, but does that mean that inversion is less valid of a pattern? I believe it is possible that the reason I see inversion rather than reflection is because I solve this problem verbally: circle, square | (circle?) square, (square?) circle [okay, circle in the left half maps to square in the right half, and square in the left half maps to circle in the right half] whereas most people solve it visuospatially.