Neuroscientists joke you should never trust a surgeon who can spell.
In the Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins asserts that specialists are wired for specific tasks . In almost all cases specialism involves trade offs . Begging the question do we need to start screening out surgeons who can spell .
In Thomas G West’s heretical caste system …. The verbal thinkers and the visual thinkers swap places in the 21st century .
He argues intelligence is not unitary or entirely verbal . This myth belongs firmly in the last century . West argues we no longer need the skills possessed by medieval clerks we need visionaries .