That's interesting, Metchosin   - after I posted that last I started wondering if there'd been any proper research into that kind of thing.

We do seem to be so quick to assume that what is true for us must be true for other people - it comes into discussions about the best way to learn and the best way to teach for example. There's a tendency to react as if, when someone appears to work diffeently, they must somehow be faking.

It comes up a lot in the context of arguments about differences between men and women, but I think thats just one small aspect of much wider differences in the way we are wired-up.