> In my experience, algebraic thinkers absorb information much faster than visual thinkers, but they more often make silly conceptual errors that visual thinkers don't make. For example, an algebraic thinker might accidentally add a vector to a scalar, since their symbols look identical on paper. But a visual thinker would be much less likely to do this, since their visual representations for scalars and vectors would likely be so distinct.

It's too bad these algebraic thinkers aren't working in a nice IDE with type inference.