That test seems highly biased towards women/females!
The questions involved colors and natural settings ... faces, sunrises, blue skies, clouds with lightening.
I have a degree in Mech Eng tech which found me and my class mates imagining THINGS -- not faces, sunrises, and such -- in 3D and rotating them in our mind's eyes.
This did NOT entail colors so much as shapes, profiles, and such in black-and-white.
Far more women dream in color than men as well as being able to lucid dream.
Men more often visualize to navigate in 3D via spatial cues, not color and texture which women use more heavily and readily.
I was awakened by a naked man in the early hours of Saturday morning when I was 18.
I was sleeping in my bed in a 3-man room in a navy barracks.
I recognized the guy; he was in my class in the same computer tech school.
He said, "get out of MY bed".
I looked around the room and spotted MY room mates.
I asserted that it was MY room, not his.
In his drunken state he had ascended one-too-many flights of stairs and navigated down a hall colored something starkly contrasting the color of his hallway ... IGNORING something the vast majority of women would not ignore.
However the room he mistook for his was spatially located directly above his.
He got the distance from the hall entrance door right, the side the hall right.
His navigation of space was just a floor off ... as he FAILED to notice a HUGE color clue that the floor was not the one on which his room was located.
I suspect that the test could be rewritten to favor the way MEN visualize ... more spatially and with more attention to shape and profile and far less attention to color, texture, facial features, natural settings and such.
The test also didn't test for visualizing future conditions, next state, next step sorts of scenarios.
I can look the present state of a sculpture I'm working on and anticipate what it will look like with modifications I'm anticipating.
My mind favors the SUBJECTS and WAYS it visualizes; It doesn't find visualizing sun rises or lightening storms very interesting, satisfying, or useful as a general rule.
Imagine a pink elephant taking dump on a sunrise as it turns into a lightening storm!
Really? I can't imagine too many men/guys wasting mental effort on such.
A bicycle has front chain ring with 45 teeth and the chain is presently on a rear sprocket having 21 teeth.
Imagine the rider pedaling at a rate of 70 revolutions per minute on the crank.
This is the sort of thing many visually adroit, mechanically inclined guys can and WILL expend effort visualizing.
Seymour Papert -- the author of "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas" -- recounted viewing and imagining mating gears as a child.
Given a perspective view of physical `part' I can imagine a top, front, and right side view of the part ... without injecting irrelevant color or `facial expression' into my visualization.
I'm not interested in visualizing Tall, fat, short, skinny individuals with the sun rising behind them as a purple haze burns off.
I'm sure that there are plenty of good visualizers who reject or suppress visualizing scenes -- of features of scenes -- more hallucinatory or fantastic than those more realistic, possible, or probable.
I'm pretty sure that most men favor and appreciate a `spatial sense' and the ability to imagine spatial juxtapositions than warm fuzzy color lacking all spatial to-scale suchness; as such I'm imagining something akin to elective mutism in the domain of imagination.
Given the suggestion to imagine off white, as contrasted with ivory, or vanilla frosting I'd balk; it's just too `gender inappropriate' for me.
Elective refusal to imagine a fantasy painted with words via a questionably-valid `test' does not indicate an inability to do so so much as it speaks more to motivation. Meh.