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Re: Lego & BHC
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:11:48 GMT
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Brass Tilde <brasstilde@IHATESPAMinsightbb.com>
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> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Jerry Kalpin wrote:
> > I am a Mechanical Engineer and have been struggling with my latest LEGO
> > project for several weeks. It boils down to ...trying over and over • again
> > to get a 'better result' using a different combination of pieces. So • much
> > of this depends on being able to see.
> To which Jim Choate replied:
> I can't disgree stongly enough on this. I call this 'sighted bias'. Since
> you've clearly never been blind or worked with the blind then I'd expect
> nothing else but this sort of view. The sighted live their whole lives
> handicapped in this way with regard to imagination. It's a perfect example
> of the 'if all you know is a nail...'.
I have to agree with Jim on this one. When I was a kid, there was a blind
(from birth) kid who lived down the street who had more legos then than I do
now. If it was the first time building a model, he would open the box
himself, sort all the pieces according to his own system, then have his
parents translate the instructions to him, describing the pieces, telling
him the orientation, etc. He wouldn't take that much longer to put it
together than I would have.
The thing that impressed me most was the fact that if he put the model down
to work on a sub-assembly, when it came time to attach that sub-assembly, he
would almost *always* be able to unerringly find and pick up the main piece,
and orient it properly to attach the new one, *without* fumbling, without
spending a great deal of time feeling the model, etc. It was almost spooky,
prompting me on more than one occasion to question whether or not he was
really blind. (Hey, I was nine).
He moved away about 5 years later. I've often wondered what he's doing now.
Probably designing space shuttles or something.
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| Hi Jerry, (...) I can't disgree stongly enough on this. I call this 'sighted bias'. Since you've clearly never been blind or worked with the blind then I'd expect nothing else but this sort of view. The sighted live their whole lives handicapped in (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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