... we had time to try out research methods, organizational forms of work and, as always, all the time when we were not very busy, we were attracted to various consultations. About one of them I want to tell you here, because it immediately showed how the processing of information in the Chukchi (it was mostly right-handed, figurative) differs from the processing of information by the subordinate population, which, like the main population in the USSR, was left-handed (i.e. left-handed). processing information in a verbal and logical manner.
It was an eleven-year-old boy who was unable to overcome the threshold of class 3 and although he was a offspring deer farmer, he was sent to an auxiliary school to study the profession of steward. A month after entering the school, he escaped from it and went to his 300 km-distance brigade.
To assess his intellectual abilities, it was important for us to ask him in detail about the circumstances of his escape.
How many days would it take you to get to the brigade?
I didn’t think I knew it was about 6 days.
How did you know this?
From there, the way to the brigade. When we were taken to this school by helicopter, I was watching the tundra all the time.
What did it give you?
I knew where to go and how long the journey would take.
Thunder is the same everywhere.
Then the boy looked at me with a sincere contempt and said:
Tundra is different everywhere.