Left Handedness

[Shirosaki]

Left Handedness

I'm a lefty, and I just read this. I think it's very interesting because it is true about me. I synthesise things instead of analysing and I process information using a "visual simultaneous" method.

Source is the dreaded Wikipedia.

Possible effects in humans on thinking

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.[48][49][50][51]

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 that they are more creative may stem from this ability to multi-task.[citation needed]

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.

Discuss? :lol:

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: Left Handedness

Can't be very accurate. Who the heck would sit and sort through a thousand popcorn to find the unique one? I'm a righty but I definitely wouldn't do that, its just dumb. I'm also excellent at multi-tasking.

Actually, the whole article seems to paint righties in a negative light! Curse you, biased Wikipedia!

 

[TheJJMax]

Re: Left Handedness

Totally wrong. I am right-handed, but I ain't blind, Wikipedia! I could see a blue piece instantly.

 

[Shirosaki]

Re: Left Handedness

T'is but an example.

Don't focus on that, what about analysing and synthesising? I am a lefty, I synthesise.

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: Left Handedness

Since "analysis" seems to be a retard's way of solving problem, I'ma have to go with "synthesis".

 

[TheJJMax]

Re: Left Handedness

Since "analysis" seems to be a retard's way of solving problem, I'ma have to go with "synthesis".

I just solve a problem and be done with it. I personally don't care if my right hand affects my mind.

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: Left Handedness

I just solve a problem and be done with it. I personally don't care if my right hand affects my mind.

It is actually more a case of your mind affecting your hand. The right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain, and vice-versa. So in theory a right-handed person's left part of the brain is the dominant one, and this ought to have some interesting side-effects, which is what Senna is talking about here.

However, I seem to be an exception of the rule since I "think" like a left-handed person...

 

[Xeon]

Re: Left Handedness

T'is but an example.

Don't focus on that, what about analysing and synthesising? I am a lefty, I synthesise.

My muffin thinks you're crazy and she wants you to go!

The theory might be right, there is something about being left handed, I have read somewhere that most lefties can actually train their right hand to be just as mobile, and that they can write letters two lines at the time. It could support your theory, a lefty wouldn't imagine what he's about to right but imagine how it would look on paper and how much space it would take up.

I'm lefthanded but I can write with both.

 

[Tyloric]

Re: Left Handedness

I just solve a problem and be done with it. I personally don't care if my right hand affects my mind.

[insert obvious masturbation joke here]

 

[droded]

Re: Left Handedness

I'm ambidextrous, I can write with both hands. What does the article say about me then hmm?

 

[Xeon]

Re: Left Handedness

Most left handed persons can write with both hands

 

[Daemon300]

Re: Left Handedness

I'm ambidextrous, I can write with both hands. What does the article say about me then hmm?

Same here.
I can shoot two guns at once with 100% accuracy.

 

[TRA Rotid]

Re: Left Handedness

Most left handed persons can write with both hands

I know none.

 

[Xeon]

Re: Left Handedness

I know none.

I know 4, but then again, they're all related to me

 

[Amanda]

Re: Left Handedness

I'm left handed but I can write with both hands, almost as legibly as my dominant hand.

When I was growing up, I often switched between using both hands when learning to write. My teacher told my parents that they should make me stick with one hand, rather than let me switch between the two. They never made me choose so I think that may be where my ambidexterity comes in.

I write left handed, bat right, throw right, and fight southpaw. Basically, I stand with my right foot forward so that my left is my power while right handers stand with their left foot forward and right as power.

I pretty much do anything that requires power or precise activity with my left and anything else with my right.

 

[Xeon]

Re: Left Handedness

I can throw longer with my left arm but my precise with my right

 

[Angel]

Re: Left Handedness

I'm a lefty and the only advantage I seem to have is the ability to write as fast backwards as I can forwards...pointless, unless I'm going to be a weird sort of spy, I guess. Still, nice to have a plan for the future just on case, eh?

 

[curmudgeon99]

Re: Left Handedness

I wrote the section from Wikipedia that you are quoting and I will clear this up.

We know all this stuff because of the work of Dr. Roger Sperry, and he won the 1981 Nobel Prize for this work. He worked on a bunch of people who had, for medical reasons, their two hemispheres separated (the corpus callosum was cut) so that the two brains were unable to communicate. Sperry figured out that the two brain hemispheres have different jobs to do. The left hemisphere, which is faster and made up of mostly gray matter, is optimized to store words and so that is why it processes in a linear-sequential, straight-line, one step after another way, which is very powerful.
The right hemisphere, which is slower and made up of mostly white matter, is optimized to store images and the many separate pieces of information that need to be connected, which is how the brain stores images.
Also, both right and left-handed people have use of both hemispheres, so both lefties and righties use both the linear sequential hemisphere and the visual simultaneous one.

The difference is this:
Left-Handed people have their Right Brain in charge--the Vision hemisphere dominates.
Right-Handed people have their Left Brain in charge--the Linear hemisphere dominates.

Lefties can better multi-task because of this.

 

[TheJJMax]

Re: Left Handedness

Necromancer.

 

[Shirosaki]

Re: Left Handedness

Necromancer.

Not necessarily, the guy had a good reason to post and plus, it's only a 4 week old thread.

Thanks for that, am I right in assuming you only joined the forums to post in this particular thread? If so, I'll just thank you and wont bother +Repping you. :lol: