About ten percent of people are left handed. Some studies find no link to creativity and others demonstrate a small positive correlation. Left handers seem to be disproportionately represented amongst high achievers, but also amongst those with a wide range of learning disabilities and other disorders. It is argued that the right hemisphere of the brain is more creative and intuitive whereas the left side is more rational and mathematical. And as motor control crossed to the opposite side left handed people may be 'right brained'. However, not only is handedness not directly related to hemisphere dominance, but it has since been shown that mental abilities are distributed more evenly across hemispheres than originally thought.
Other suggestions that the left hand is odd or quirky seems to relate to left-handers being in the minority and so historically treated as disordered or even evil. Therefore any difference that exist, on average, between left and right handed people are probably not large enough to be informative about any particular person.
Other suggestions that the left hand is odd or quirky seems to relate to left-handers being in the minority and so historically treated as disordered or even evil. Therefore any difference that exist, on average, between left and right handed people are probably not large enough to be informative about any particular person.
