What's a good career for someone good at recognizing patterns, but not a math whiz?

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You're probably not as good as you think at pattern recognition. The human brain is wired to think they're finding patterns in meaningless noise. Even if you find patterns, a computer can do it way faster and better.

[Anonymous]

Along the lines of NSA and imagery being a crypto logic linguist for the military and what that leads to (government intel analyst) is very dependent on recognizing patterns.

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Cyber security

[Anonymous]

Agree on the value of pattern recognition as a psychologist, absolutely

[Anonymous]

Some sort of business intelligence type role? Computers can churn out a million statistics and data points but it really does still require a person to interpret and find the meaning in it all.

You'll probably have to have a basic understanding of math / stats but definitely not math whiz level.

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Forensic scientist with focus on latent fingerprint analysis.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a policy analyst and think people who can find a pattern / story / theme do well in that field. We have specialists who run our analytics - we’re mostly thinkers and writers.

I was briefly in fundraising early in my career. If you have people skills combined with pattern recognition I suspect that field could work well for identifying and targeting potential donors.

Not to hijack this thread, but can you explain how you got into policy? I’ve been working in marketing communications (B2G and B2B) for SMBs and my core skills have always been research, analysis (including finding the “story”) and writing. I’d love to get into policy. Any advice?

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Astrologer

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UX researcher

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Fraud Analyst

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Radiology or pathology

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Anonymous wrote:Do they exist?

Every career depends on recognizing pattens. Please be more specific. What kind of patterns do you like recognizing?

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Anonymous wrote:Attorney - especially tax, health care, regulatory work.
Also I feel like medicine would be amazing for someone with this skill set. Doesn’t medical diagnosis depend on recognition of symptom patterns? (Doctors please correct me if this is a misconception)

Yes it does. Diagnoses are based on known precedent cases and so are treatments.

Pattern recognition is everywhere OP. It’s a useful tool to apply previous knowledge to a current situation and then use judgement, experience and ideas to pick and choose which elements to try out.

Law, medicine, investing, computer programming, teaching, construction, etc.

Any industries or types of jobs appealing to you? Then find a role with your coveted pattern recognition.

[Anonymous]

professional Simon player