Independent Thinkers Judge Distances Differently Than Holistic Types

Another study, this time saying that independent thinkers (which are the type you find a greater percentage of in the Western World) are less able to judge spatial distances than the interdependent types of thinkers (which are mostly found in the East).

I think, by reading this article, that neither thinker has too much problem with dead reckoning a straight line. Western thinkers, however, think of turns in a road as distractions and continue to see a straight line even though there might be curves in it that make the path longer.



Interdependent thinkers, however, do not have this problem as much, but they are generally more confused by optical illusions.



None of this really explains why no one has really perfected a fool-proof pathfinding AI in games. :-)