Would You Rather Be Gifted in Math or Prose?

[M.D. Holloway]

If you could be gifted, which would you choose?

[bell]

i am gifted.......
but i picked numbers.....as math is the basis for all things.....from astrophysics to bra sizes.......

[Jrboulder]

Sometimes neither. I know a lot of people who are very smart (quite a few who are gifted). Most of them are very akward to be around and a lot of them get bad grades. I am the same way. I scored the highest in the class in the mathematical aptitude test in the honors math class at a very acedemic high school but I had one of the worst grades in the class.

[sc_rufctr]

Words for me... (just read some of my posts )

[Tobra]

I wish I were a more proficient mathlete, key to the universe, math is.

You don't get to pick though, the high score for me on the SAT was for verbal.

[Gogar]

Good words can get you out of a bad math situation. Much less so in the other direction.

[masraum]

I didn't vote. I'm pretty darn sharp in math. I can get my point across, but I'm certainly no poet or wordsmith.

I wanted to vote both. I'd like to be a renaissance man. I'm more gifted on the math/science side of things, but I really love creative stuff (unfortunately, not very good at any of it).

[Jrboulder]

Good words can get you out of a bad math situation. Much less so in the other direction.

Yup!

[madmmac]

Talking numbers don't get you laid.

I think you know my vote.

[Drdogface]

At my age math is not gonna be very useful day to day. I'd rather be able to write really well.

[Schumi]

Words are man's doings, and entirely subjective by culture and time.

Math is not.

[sc_rufctr]

Maths can be taught...

Words??? Anyone can be taught the basics but real world usage... Not so sure.
More of a gift than anything else.

BTW: Interestingly Einstein always said he was bad at maths.

[pwd72s]

Math, I suppose....but then, prose didn't hurt some folks. Hemingway, et al. On the other hand, behind every successful writer are thousands who didn't make it.

[porsche4life]

I can do math when I feel like it. I'm not the craftiest with words though. I agree with Gogar, you can talk yourself out of about anything if you are good enough.

[Noah930]

I'm Asian. I didn't have a choice in the matter.

[Mr.Puff]

Numbers, I am not artsy.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by Jrboulder

Sometimes neither. I know a lot of people who are very smart (quite a few who are gifted). Most of them are very akward to be around and a lot of them get bad grades. I am the same way. I scored the highest in the class in the mathematical aptitude test in the honors math class at a very acedemic high school but I had one of the worst grades in the class.

Maybe the class bored U?

[tabs]

Einstein said, "Math is the language of God."
With math you always know how the story is going to turn out at the end.

[oldE]

We spend most of our lives communicating with others.
Although the language of numbers can be beautiful, most people understand words.

Les

[wdfifteen]

I see most people here assumed by "words" you mean the written word. If I had a choice I wish I were better at the spoken word. I can write, I am good enough at math to have gotten and engineering degree, but I would rather set fire to my 'nads than give a speech in public.