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Listed in The Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame as the person with the highest IQ, Marilyn vos Savant has been writing the popular 'Ask Marilyn' column for PARADE since 1986. Her column has elicited responses from the elementary school level to post-graduate Ph.Ds. She also has been featured on the front page of The New York Times. 'I like to grab people's attention and show them how to think in exciting, new and different ways,' says vos Savant. 'The emphasis always is on surprise.'  - Copyright 2009 Parade

Envisioning Time
Joan Mullet of Goshen, Indiana, writes:

Marilyn: My husband visualizes time as moving from right to left. I see it moving from left to right. Does this reflect right brain/left brain thinking?

Marilyn responds:

No, your own thinking is typical and reflects teaching. In this country, where we read from left to right, virtually all mathematical concepts--number lines, timelines, and much, much more--are taught according to this convention. Negative numbers are on the left (or down), and positive numbers are on the right (or up). If your husband were in school, he would be handicapped by his thinking.


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