By the way I'm left handed.
2006-12-28 23:49:09 · 38 answers · asked by SOL SIREN 2 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Dear Bulk O, I'm open minded!
Nobody can buy my vote.
2006-12-29 19:34:24 · update #1
Well, I'm artistic and loved maths at school.
I'll have to put this question to vote.
Good Luck !
2007-01-03 16:37:24 · update #2
I don't think being left or right handed increases ones intelligence. It all a matter of the person's brain. i have encountered many dumb people who are left and right handed. So my conclusion is that it doesn't matter.
2006-12-29 00:00:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh of course left handled people are more intelligent! ... Hmm too many people answering this question, sucking up to the left handed person's question isn't going to get me best answer... Hmmm I guess I might well just say what I really think.
How would you really know? We have a hard enough time deciding what intelligence is! Besides that there are a million different things that could influence one person being more intelligent then another. So to really know you would have to have the exact same person that lived the exact same life and some how compare that person to a left handed and a right hand, with no other differences.
BTW I'm ambidextrous so I don't really care which hand you pick.
2006-12-29 19:15:20 · answer #2 · answered by Bulk O 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While there is an unresolved debate within the scientific community on how to operationalize both intelligence and creativity, 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 have 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 the language centers of the brain.
2006-12-28 23:54:38 · answer #3 · answered by Amy 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My mother had three kids. Two lefties and one right-handed.
My brother and I, the two lefties, excelled in school. Our sister was just an average student.
Although both my mother and my brother's daughter also were excellent students. Both right-handed.
Maybe whatever it was that made us left-handed made them good students too or maybe not.
Left-handed people do have to learn very early in life to adapt to a world that is backwards to them so that may also be a factor.
Things others take for granted like braiding hair and serving food have to be reversed by us.
I am creative, but math is my best subject.
My right-handed son is going to art school in the spring.
Leaves a lot to ponder, doesn't it?
2006-12-29 03:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is not undesirable to be left-exceeded. some are and characteristic been clever, in call for, and so forth, yet that doesn't advise that in basic terms because of the fact one is left-exceeded they have some hidden benefit. It DOES advise that most of the worldwide's innovations that require the mandatory use of one hand, are designed for righties, in basic terms because of the fact there is a lot of extra precise-handers around. So all us left-handers would desire to compensate and learn paintings-arounds for this occasion, and could in all risk proceed to realize this for many of our lives. the forged information is that maximum human beings presently do no longer care which hand you employ maximum. in the previous some civilizations would discriminate against lefties. some in call for people who have been left-exceeded: Alexander the excellent Babe Ruth Betty Grable Ted Williams Harry S. Truman Ty Cobb Charlemagne Pablo Picasso Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Michealangelo Raphael Leonardo Da Vinci
2016-12-15 10:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we are perceived as being more intelligent because we are more adaptable to our surrounding. I live in Singapore where hardly anything is tailored to left-handed people. As a result I have had to become ambi-dexterous. But I know I am no more intelligent than right-handed people.
2006-12-29 00:54:59 · answer #6 · answered by schizojuc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History tells us that many creative people with extremely high IQ's have been left handed. Einstein is one example and there are many many more. However I do not know the proportion of lefties vs righties when it comes to the 'more intelligent' ones.
2007-01-03 07:27:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being left handed myself, I have come to the conclusion that we are not in fact smarter, we just access the more creative side of our brains (the right side). We tend to see things in a bit of a different light, and have developed a more "creative eye". What a boring world it would be though, if we were all the same. :)
2006-12-28 23:55:06 · answer #8 · answered by pagansong2003 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Define intelligence. That is a left-handed person may have greater ability to think in more abstract and creative terms than a right-handed person.
I happen to be a highly creative right-handed person, and my husband is a highly creative left-handed person.
We both have our intellectual gifts and weaknesses which complement one another and helps fill in the gaps.
2006-12-28 23:57:25 · answer #9 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
intelligence is evenly distributed,
but because the right brain controls the left side, and vice versa certain other talents or tendencies may be activated by the extra use of that side of the brain, and since Lefties are a minority it would also make it more noticeable
2006-12-29 07:19:07 · answer #10 · answered by janssen411 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋