What causes lack of spatial awareness? Yes it's maddening, impolite, ignorant & lots more but what CAUSES IT?

[DrPepper12]

The lady with the shopping cart

The 9 point turn with 2 meters on both sides?

The guy with the IKEA box on his roof that he thought would fit in his Honda Civic?

The over pourer?

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE AND HOW DID THEY GET THIS WAY? 🗡️ 💣 ☠️

Yes I'm fully aware that men have tested better for spatial awareness as far as rotating objects in their mind but fare no better statistically on practical real-world applications.

[DJB72]

I remember seeing a video years ago of a trucker who agreed to do an experiment. He backed his truck into a gap between two cones perfectly ten times. Then he was taken and given just one unit of alcohol. A beer. After half an hour he was taken back to his truck and asked to repeat the task.

The cones, meanwhile had been moved so instead of being a foot wider than the truck they were now six inches narrower.

Before he got into the cab he was asked to look at the cones, as he had before, and say if he could complete the job.

Complete confidence. Well below the LEGAL blood-alcohol limit.

He destroyed the cones ten times before he was told they'd been moved.

Spatial awareness can be altered very easily

[DrPepper12]

That's fascinating!!! But what about these sober morons?

[DrPepper12]

*natural

[DJB72]

There's no hope for the sober ones...

[MisterWack]

Hey hey, I only over poured… Like 5 times in my life, okay? Give me a break lmao.

I don't know how people do the 9 point turn, lady with shopping cart, and stuff, though it is annoying. I think it is a lack of common sense / too much focus on oneself and not a lot of self awareness.

[DrPepper12]

Agreed. They just DGAF

[Amy10223]

That’s a term that is tested for when a person or child may have a learning disability. So I would say you are born that way. Your brain just uses different pathways to think and does not use the same pathways people without this problem do.

[Caroline91]

Yes. I don't get angry as often as I probably should! lol

[Likes2drive]

I have very good spatial awareness, I don’t know exactly why but I judge a space very well but I guess it’s because I’m a male and it’s in our brains that way, I don’t think I actually learned it. But it seems like mostly women can’t judge as well with space and other people that don’t feel confident enough to try maybe. I definitely need good judgment for my job or would have been hitting things constantly

[DrPepper12]

As pre teens boys get 2x the opptys for "measuring math" so perhaps experience plays a part?

[Likes2drive]

Yeah maybe, I was really good at math in school

[OneViewpoint]

These are the people who suck at topological puzzles too. They can’t visualize spatial relationships. Can’t orient a map or visualize adjustment for declination.

If flying cars ever become a reality, it will be chaos turning these people loose to navigate in three dimension traffic systems. Now there’s a use case for AI to save the day.

[Amy10223]

These are people whooping get lost easily or don't have a good sense of direction. Like me.

[Amy10223]

Whoops, "who get lost" easily...

[Tarifa]

It happens a lot when you buy something at IKEA. They should put a list on every box of stuff they sell with all the cars it can possibly fit in. That would take the guesswork out of the equation and you wouldn't look like a fool on their parking lot.

I think they secretly enjoy this. I can see their workers watching it all on a closed tv circuit and laughing their... off.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I'd think that lack of spatial awareness, Geocentrism, may be due to a literal approach to the Bible?

[DrPepper12]

That's FUNNY 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[exitseven]

Having one eye would do it. Maybe when people get older their depth perception gets bad. Seems logical since everything else in you body goes to shit when you get old.

[NathanDavis]

bad eyesight