Why are left-handed people smarter than right-handed ?

Question

Most of the great thinkers of history were left-handed apparently.

Answer 1

It's because we can think with both sides of our brains - right-handed people can't. We're more creative, intelligent and flexible. Plus it's easy for us to learn to write with both hands - and at he same time.

Answer 2

A lot of great thinkers were left-handed, but also a lot were right-handed. You cannot say that left-handed people are more intelligent, that is definitely not true. Maybe you have that idea because left-handed persons, I am left-handed as well, think in another way than right-handed people do. They use more the right brain part as this hemisphere is for emotional thinking, intuition, creativity, visualising etc. The left hemisphere, the stronger part of right-handed people, is for analytic thinking, logic, facts, details etc.
You see, their main "think-part" is different from each other, so they think in another way. But no one is smarter than the other.
Well, I hope I could help you! =)

Answer 3

I have a daughter and an ex-husband who are both left handed, so your theory does not hold true. I love my daughter to pieces, but she is not the sharpest tack in the box. And, as for my EX-husband, need I say more? I personally don't think that right or left handed makes a person smarter.

Check out the great thinkers of history who were right-handed. I'll bet there were a bunch of them also. Do you have a list of ALL the great thinkers, and have them divided between right and left. If not, you cannot make a statement like you've made, and have it be accurate.

Answer 4

Research indicates that southpaws demonstrate significantly better abilities at such tasks than right-handed people who tend to be more efficient at tasks necessitating use of only one cerebral hemisphere. Apparently the brains of lefties are wired differently and more symmetrical than those of right-handers.

So what are some of the tasks lefties are better at than the great majority of the population? Playing fast computer games, driving in heavy traffic and piloting a jet fighter are a few of them.

Also lefties cope better with the ravaging affects which age has on the brain.

Answer 5

I don't know, I'm left handed but everything seems to be right handed so I have to put up with it. The computer mice are always on the right hand side of computers but now I havejust gotten used to it!! Anyway I don't think I'm any smarter than my friends, just depends if you have any brains! =D

Answer 6

i am left handed and i wouldnt call myself super brainy but fairly brainy. The only advantage i have noticed is that i have neat handwriting and so do my other two friends who are left handed. Any way left handers look more brainy as there is a smaller porportion of them so of cause this has to affect the statistics. You have more stupid right handed people than left as there are more of them.

Answer 7

I'm not sure why I'm smarter than right handed people. I just know I am. That and I have an oversized ego.

Answer 8

Its said that this is because they use the opposite side of their brain than right hander's do. I do not know if that's true, but is does seem like there's a lot of smart Lefty's out there.

Answer 9

This is a subjective question. But if true, the left handers had to cope in a right handers world.

Answer 10

you cannot make a statement such as that, it is clearly not reasearchable to a clear result. the intelligence of a human is down to their parents and their enthusiasm for study, it has no relevance to whether they are left or right handed.