{"id":252,"date":"2013-10-02T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scqa.hult.edu\/en\/news\/hult-labs\/2013\/october\/visualize-this-spatial-reasoning\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:35:23","slug":"visualize-this-spatial-reasoning-skills-matter-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/visualize-this-spatial-reasoning-skills-matter-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualize This: Spatial Reasoning Skills Matter More Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The aircraft in the picture is probably unlike anything you\u2019ve ever seen. In fact, it looks like it\u2019s straight out of Star Wars.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/space\/1112941513\/nasa-future-missions-lego-design-contest-winners-090613\/\">Its wings are blue, the main body is white<\/a>, and its been designed to cut down on fuel consumption through a hybrid engine that combines hydrogen and turboelectric power. Yet the most amazing part of all? It\u2019s made entirely of LEGOs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The second most amazing part of this design, aptly named the \u201cHydrogen Powered Regional Airliner,\u201d is that it was designed by 13-year-old Claes Sundstrom, who took first place at\u00a0<a class=\"fancybox-youtube\" style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I163lgYBA2M\">NASA\u2019s \u201cFuture Missions: Imagine and Build\u201d<\/a>\u00a0contest earlier last month. Sundstrom\u2019s win earned him a trophy, NASA souvenirs\u2014and bragging rights for life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">So what\u2019s at the heart of the ability to design an aircraft with tiny plastic bricks that in theory could also actually function in the skies? One might say it\u2019s sheer genius, but it\u2019s actually called spatial reasoning. Writer Annie Murphy Paul describes it as \u201cthe ability to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2013\/07\/24\/viewpoint-girls-should-play-more-video-games\/\">mentally manipulate shapes<\/a>\u00a0and otherwise understand how the three-dimensional world works.\u201d It\u2019s a critical skill for a wide range of occupations\u2014<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/serendip.brynmawr.edu\/bb\/neuro\/neuro02\/web3\/czhan.html\">from mathematics and engineering, to design and sculpture<\/a>. But it\u2019s rarely given the attention many educators and experts believe it deserves\u2014at least not in the traditional classroom environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Educators, experts, scientists, etc., have all sorts of ideas on why spatial reasoning skills haven\u2019t received the same curricular attention as math and verbal skills, which we\u2019ll get into in a minute. But one of the more intriguing theories, proposed by Kirk Goldsberry in his article \u201c<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2013\/09\/teaching-and-learning-visualiz\/\">The Importance of Spatial Thinking Now<\/a>,\u201d posits that when Harvard University shuttered its Geography Department in the 1940s, many (but not all) universities elected to dissolve their programs as well. The effect, he believes, has been profound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u201cWe are paying for a prolonged lack of spatial thinking [\u2026] There are too few classes that enable learners to improve their spatial reasoning abilities, with maps and visualizations being of course the most central artifacts to such improvements. [\u2026] Not enough people know how to make maps or handle spatial data sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Why is this so important now? Because of this: we don\u2019t rely on mere words alone to communicate and disseminate data anymore (we probably never really did), and the phenomena of big data has made its counterpart, data visualization, increasingly critical in helping to \u201cvisually decode\u201d an overwhelming amount of information. Charts, infographics, 3-D graphics\u2014even animation shorts\u2014are harnessed more than ever to translate large, chunky, convoluted data into easily digestible, bite-sized bits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">You see, our brains really like pictures\u2014and we learn a lot faster when they\u2019re paired with data. Typically,\u00a0<a class=\"fancybox-youtube\" style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cLLDUyy8utY\">we are likely to remember only about 10%<\/a>\u00a0of information three days after we\u2019ve first absorbed it. But that retention rate skyrockets to 65% when you throw a picture (or more) in the mix. This concept is\u2014no surprise\u2014known as the picture superiority effect. Check out a few of former New York Times\u2019 reporter\u00a0<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002w4&amp;topic_id=1&amp;topic=\">Megan Jaegerman\u2019s infographics<\/a>, and see if you don\u2019t walk away with new, quickly ingested knowledge on a topic you didn\u2019t know much about before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">But for every great design, there are far more\u00a0<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/8-horrible-data-visualizations-that-make-no-sense-1228022038\">bad ones<\/a>. So how come schools aren\u2019t stepping up to the plate to help students hone their spatial reasoning skills so they have the ability to not only visualize, but also communicate, data more effectively?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Forbes writer Alex Knapp, opines in his article \u201c<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexknapp\/2011\/12\/27\/why-dont-schools-value-spatial-reasoning\/\">Why Schools Don\u2019t Value Spatial Reasoning<\/a>,\u201d that spatial reasoning is harder to test and teach than the traditional triumvirate of \u201creading, writing, and \u2018rithmetic\u201d. Just consider the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), he says, and what it measures: quantitative and verbal skills. There is no spatial reasoning section. (There is a test, the Differential Aptitude Test, which can measure those skills.) But here\u2019s the thing: it\u2019s possible\u2014just like you might be better at math than reading comprehension\u2014you also might be exceptionally good at spatial reasoning and never know it because you\u2019ve never been tested for it. In fact, it\u2019s sometimes known as the \u201c<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/16\/us\/study-finds-early-signs-of-creativity-in-adults.html\">orphan ability<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">So it makes sense that with data visualization emerging as a critical area of study in its own right, according to Goldsberry, spatial reasoning skills have become more important than ever: \u201cdata visualization is an emerging, important discipline, and spatial thinking\u2014geography\u2014is a fundamental skill for good data visualization.\u201d Does this mean that because students aren\u2019t exposed to geography in school (many, anyway), there\u2019s an army of students and graduates walking around with stunted spatial reasoning abilities? Surprisingly and fortunately, the answer is no. Why? Because guess what else helps build those skills? Video games. That\u2019s right. In our next post we\u2019ll talk about newly emerged research, and why writer Annie Murphy Paul has made the declaration that \u201c<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2013\/07\/24\/viewpoint-girls-should-play-more-video-games\/\">girls should play video games<\/a>\u201d. Ah, the virtues of Grand Theft Auto V. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/en\/brochure\/\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/media\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DIGI171025-Blog-Ad-banners_Artboard-8-720x92.png\" alt=\"Global Generation\" width=\"720\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/media\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DIGI171025-Blog-Ad-banners_Artboard-8-720x92.png 720w, https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/media\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DIGI171025-Blog-Ad-banners_Artboard-8-500x64.png 500w, https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/media\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DIGI171025-Blog-Ad-banners_Artboard-8-768x98.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/media\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DIGI171025-Blog-Ad-banners_Artboard-8-1024x131.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5e5e5e; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Picture courtesy of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #6586b4; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/billward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Ward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Hult offers a range of highly skills-focused and employability-driven business school programs including a range of MBA options and a comprehensive one year Masters in International Business. 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