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From: archie@mirror.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Psychology Pointer
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 14:20:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 14:20:00 1985
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You've raised a question that I've wondered about for as long as I've been
conscious of my personal pattern.  I don't, however, have any scholarly
information about it.  Your patterns sound similar, though not identical, to
mine.  Since I'm sorry to say I can't precisely visualize yours from your
verbal descriptions, I'll try to diagram mine.  Since childhood I have
visualized numbers this way:				 

							etc.
							101
	20----30----40----50----60----70----80----90----100
	|
	|
	15
	|
	|
	10----9----8----7----6----5----4----3----2----1----0
					(SEEN FROM THIS VANTAGE POINT)

And the alphabet this way:

	Z
	|
	|
	|
	|
	P------------------H
			   |
			   |
			   |
			   |
			   A (SEEN FROM HERE)

(Actually, it's a bit more complicated:  Is it the G or H that's on the
corner?  It shifts, depending on whether I'm grouping letters from below
or beyond.  And do numbers above 100 go up at a right angle and then repeat
the pattern, or do they double back parallel?  But you get the idea.)

I can think of an explanation for the alphabet pattern, at least, by virtue
of which I suspect it may be a common one.  In the "Alphabet Song" we
learned as kids, the verse lines end with G and P.

Incidentally, when I listen to a football game on radio (despite having seen
countless games on TV and at the playing field) I visualize the yard lines
from 0 to 50 (whichever side they're playing on) being arranged in the "["
configuration shown above.  That is, I envision ball-carriers making right
turns at the 20 and 10 yard lines!  Let's not even think about forward
passes or runs from one end of the field to the other.

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