Are you left or right handed?

Philippines
September 10, 2009 4:01am CST
My sister-in-law told me recently that left handed people are more intelligent and creative compared to right handed. I have met some left handed people and indeed they were very creative and eloquent. I don't really know if it's really true. Have you heard of this matter? Is it true or not? Then are you left or right handed?
5 responses
@Fadolf (545)
• Slovenia
10 Sep 09
Being left or right handed has nothing to do with intelligence. There are many factors that influence someones inrelligence (genes, environment, etc.). It is believed that each side of the brain is used for different tasks. For example, if you are left handed you are using your right side of the brain (yeah, right, it isn't mistake) which is believed to be used for tasks which need creativity and mathematical skills. Right handed people are using their left side of tge brain which is used for spacial orientation, language, decisions, etc. Maybe I wasn' clear enough... It doesn't mean you are using only one part of your brain, it just means that the usage of one side is higher than the usage of other. I hope you understood me well. Thank you for reading. Happy mylotting and take care... P.S. I'm right handed and my brother is left handed and believe me, it has nothing to do with intelligence...
• Philippines
11 Sep 09
Yeah, your right. I've also read about those things that you've mentioned. There's so many factors that influences the intelligence of a person. I think not all left-handed has the quality of being intelligent or artistic. It only explained that there's higher percentage of left-handed intelligent people compared to right-handed. Yeah, you have a valid point. It's okay I understand you. Anyways thanks for sharing with us and have a great day!
• Philippines
10 Sep 09
i have read about this too. i don't know if this is true. i am right-handed. i know a lot of intelligent people who are right-handed. i also know people who are lefties but not all of them are smart or creative. is there like a scientific basis for this?
• Philippines
11 Sep 09
I have read an article regarding this matter. This was taken from Wikipedia. In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand, Chris McManus of University College London argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers' brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of language centers of the brain. There are many theories on how being a left-handed affects the way a person thinks. One theory divides left-and right-handed thinkers into two camps: visual simultaneous vs. linear sequential. According to this theory, right-handed people are thought to process information using a "linear sequential" method in which one thread must complete its processing before the next thread can be started. According to research conducted by Dr. Roger Sperry, right-handed people process information using "analysis", which is the method of solving a problem by breaking it down to its pieces and analyzing the pieces one at a time. By contrast, left-handed people process information using "synthesis", which is the method of solving a problem by looking at a whole and trying to use pattern-matching to solve the problem. Still scientific debate about this matter's unrelenting. It's all to you to you to believe or not. Thanks for sharing with us have a great day!
• Finland
10 Sep 09
I havenĀ“t heard about this but me myself i am right handed. I like to believe im more intelligent than left handed..because when we are young kids parents allways try to push us to eat with right hand and write with right hand and so on, so i think its the right way..
• Indonesia
10 Sep 09
I am right handed
• India
10 Sep 09
i dont think its ..true ..as my one frnd ..in schools ...was thr he was left handed ... but ..he was similar ..to normal ..only there wasnt ..any thing lik dat he had super power;s .. it bcoz ..from child ..hood .. he wwas toght ..to use lft hand ..he ..did it with .left .. nothin special in that ...