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Originally Posted by sjastro
As a left hander what can I say.
"An American scientist has gathered new evidence on the link between left-handedness and intellectual creativity, confirming that "true left-handers" tend to be more intelligent and eloquent than right-handers, and better at solving problems.
Dr Alan Searleman, from St Lawrence University, New York, presenting his findings to the American Psychological Association's annual conference, said: "Left-handers have a higher 'fluid' intelligence and better vocabulary than the majority of the population. This is perhaps why there are more of them in creative professions, such as music, art and writing."
Dr Searleman says that people who throw balls with their left hands, use their left eyes to look through peepholes and place their left ears against the wall to eavesdrop on conversations are twice as good at problem-solving and have wider vocabularies than their right-handed peers.
He enlisted 1,200 people for memory, vocabulary and problem-solving tests. They were asked questions including: Do you hold a match while striking it with your right or left hand? Which ear do you use to listen to another person's heartbeat? Which eye do you use to look into a dark bottle to see how full it is? He found that people who were "true left-handers", who did everything on their left side, from kicking a football to picking up a glass of water, scored one-third more highly on vocabulary tests and twice as well on problem-solving tasks.
People who were found to be "mixed", using both their left and right hands, ears, eyes and feet for different tasks, achieved the same scores as "true right handers".
The research also found that more left-handed people were intellectually gifted, with IQs over 140, Dr Searleman said."
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What a load of BS!!!
It's a combination of both genes and upbringing. I know plenty of "lefties" who can't count to ten, let alone figure out anything more complicated.
1200 people is statistically insignificant anyway. In order to get a true gauge of the differences between left and right handed people, you'd actually need to study many thousands of people...and that would take decades.