Thursday, May 08, 2008

I'm a lefty, so what?

I'm a lefty. We're creative people. Lefties should NOT BE engineers. Did you know that less than 10% of the adult population is left-handed? And that it is more common for a man to be a lefty than a woman? Most lefties prefer their right hand for some activities and some of them are ambidextrous to a certain extent. I however, am not in this category. I'm a lefty all the way. Oh, in case some of you are wondering there is one exception; I wash my arse with my right hand. Heh. Lefties are supposed to be intellectually advanced (compared to righties) in Math, Sports and Art. This is super interesting, I got it from Wiki:

"In 2006, researchers at Lafayette College & John Hopkins University in a study found that left-handed men are 15 percent richer than right-handed men for those who attended college, and 26 percent richer if they graduated. The wage difference is still unexplainable and does not appear to apply to women."

"...does not appear to apply to women" Shucks!
Studies have shown that the left-handed's lifespan is also considerably shorter than our right-hander counterparts. By 9 years!!


More From Wiki:

"There are many theories on how being 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.

Left-handed persons are thought to process information using a "visual simultaneous" method in which several threads can be processed simultaneously. Another way to view this is such: Suppose there were one thousand pieces of popcorn and one of them was colored blue. Right-handed people—using the linear sequential processing style—would look at the popcorn one at a time until they encountered the blue one. The left-handed person would spread out the pieces of popcorn and look at all of them to find the one that was blue. A side effect of these differing styles of processing is that right-handers need to complete one task before they can start the next. Left-handers, by contrast, are capable and comfortable switching between tasks. This seems to suggest that left-handed people have an excellent ability to multi-task, and anecdotal evidence suggests that there are more creative stems due to this ability to multi-task.

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 the whole and trying to use pattern-matching to solve the problem."



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