I heard a rumor that left handed people are smarter than right handed people. Is it true???

Answer 1

Im left handed...
Its just that the left side of the brain controls creativity, while the right side controls memory and stuff. For left handers, the right side is more dominant, while for right handers, the left side is...
That just makes left handers more creative...you will find that most famous personalities..actors, cricketers, painters, are left handers

Answer 2

I am related to three left handed people and I must say that they are not necessarily smarter. They think about things differently than the righties in the family. They are very set in their ways and unwilling to try new things. When they have a grudge, they will keep it until they feel it has been paid off. This can take many years. Where the right handed members get over things and move along, these three will bring things up from 25 years in the past if they feel like it is still a pending problem. They all seem like old people because of their stubbornness and unwillingness to let things go.

Answer 3

Smarter? No.
But there may be other advantages to 'lefties', such as more artistic talents, or faster reaction to multiple stimuli
It was stated above that left handed people utilise a different section of the brain that the right handed counterparts.
This is mostly true, however it is slowly coming to light that left handed people don't simply use a "different" part of the brain, but more likely to function with "both" parts of the brain.

With regards to this topic, we split the brain into two hemispheres. Left and right.
Right handed people seem to utilise the left hemisphere of their brain when performing tasks such as writing or linguistical tasks.
Left handed people seem to utilise both hemispheres when conducting the same tasks, which can give an added advantage when exposed to mulitple or rapid stimuli, such as playing a fast-paced video game, or talking on the phone and driving simultaneously.


I hope that didnt just bring up more questions.

Answer 4

What that may come from is the lesser degree of right/left hemispheric specialization.

In english, certain activities are controlled by special areas in the brain. People might have the idea that the right side of the brain is for artistics and the left is better suited for mathematics. (this is not true, it's not as simple as that). In left handed people it has been found that those certain activities can be controlled by both sides of the brain. So in a stroke on one side of the brain, left handed people fair better because the uninjured side of the brain can learn activities previously controlled by the injured side.

There may be some conjecture that because of this ability, left-handed individuals are smarter.

And that in general the right side of the brain (which is dominant in left-handed people) is better at seeing the whole picture (as opposed to specifics).

Answer 5

That question is just as null as asking if men are smarter than women or women smarter than men..

IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE PERSON.. and their approach to life, and several other factors.

According to statistics.. Left handed people are usually less creative and more logical. This is becuase the right side of the brain controls the left and vice verse.. and the right side is logic, left side is creative.

I think its all a bunch of bull. Too many factors come into play.

Answer 6

Left handed people are in the right mind. I've been told more creative but not always smarter

Answer 7

I don't know about smarter, but if the left side of the brain controls right hand and the right side of the brain controls the left hand, then only left-handed people are in their right mind.

Answer 8

I once had a summer job working for the Department of Physical Plant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, one of the finest, most selective schools in the world. We did energy conservation, and we had to visit many classrooms and offices. (You can be sure I swallowed hard when I had to do the office of a real Nobel Laureate. LOL).

It was a well-known bit of lore that some people at MIT, who were good at statistics, followed the rules of statistics and found that among the student population (some of the brightest students in the world), there was a "statistically significant" excess of left-handed students at the school. That is, there was a greater percentage of sinistrals enrolled there than the percentage one would expect to find in the general population

Think of those seats in classrooms that have a fold-down flap of formica or pressed wood. You flip it down when you arrive in class, before you put your notebook on it. They usually flip down from the RIGHT, for right-handed people. At MIT, I saw for the first time, a number of seats that flipped from the LEFT, for lefties, maybe 10% to 15% of the total. I've rarely seen such left-handed seats since, but they do exist.

So I can't prove or disprove your rumor, but I've shown you a case in which a superior institution of higher learning spent money to accomodate its significant left-handed population.

Answer 9

doubtful, but likely the origins of the idea come from the fact that Lefties are more likely to be able to fake being righties(from being forced to be 'normal'), and the use of the left hand is controled in the right hemisphere of the brain so it may be that the right brain which i believe also controls artistic expression and the like, is more open, so a lefty may be more artistic, which hippies see as being smarter

Answer 10

I wish! I'm a lefty, and I go to a selective school for "academically gifted" people (in other words, a nerd school), but the percentage of left-handed people there is about the same as it is in the general population- about 10-17% (it varies from study to study- I put it about the 10% mark). My cousins are leftys too, but they are... not that smart. So I don't think it's related. :)