are people who are ambidextrous, smarter? (1 Viewer)

[serenetwilight]

i remember someone telling me that ambidextrous people tend to have a higher IQ, can someone tell me whether this is true? can you improve your intelligence if you start to use your 'less-used' hand more often? and please tell me your sources...

 

[pwoh]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

i remember someone telling me that ambidextrous people tend to have a higher IQ, can someone tell me whether this is true? can you improve your intelligence if you start to use your 'less-used' hand more often? and please tell me your sources...

I'm guessing that using both hands will stimulate both sides of the brain, thus more efficiency or something similar.

Interesting discussion here: http://iq.lycos.co.uk/qa/show/34406/why+are+left+handed+people+suppossed+to+be+smarter+than+right+handed+people%3F


Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed

 

[superelizabeth]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

wahaha. perhaps ambidextrous people tend to look at things from a different perspective..since they are capable of controlling both their right and left brain, and therefore regarded as 'smarter'. It's not like jugglers are the world's smartest people^_^''I don't think learning to be ambidextrous deliberately would affect your intelligence greatly. because it's hard work which is way more important =]

 

[pwoh]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

ANNE! IS THIS YOU??!!! lol

Yep.

Hard work helps you achieve in life, but it does not necessarily make you more intelligent.

Intelligence (also called intellect) is an umbrella term used to describe a property of the mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn. There are several ways to define intelligence. In some cases, intelligence may include traits such as creativity, personality, character, knowledge, or wisdom. However, most psychologists prefer not to include these traits in the definition of intelligence.

Yes, you can work hard, but genes are a major factor. (I think.)

 

[katietheskatie]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

i am a fairly good piece of evidence to demonstrate that this theory is full of shit

 

[u-borat]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

i write normally with my left hand, can write semi-okayish with my right hand, i kick a ball with my right foot, dribble a basketball with my left hand predominantly but shoot right handed, bat and bowl with left hand in cricket and play tennis right handed.

im rather fucked up.

 

[pwoh]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

i write normally with my left hand, can write semi-okayish with my right hand, i kick a ball with my right foot, dribble a basketball with my left hand predominantly but shoot right handed, bat and bowl with left hand in cricket and play tennis right handed.

im rather fucked up.

Me too

Leftie for writing/drawing and rightie for most other things O_O;

Maybe because they make everything for right-handed people.

Oh well, these skills come in handy for typing and piano

 

[sirfeathers]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

One of my aunts had a brain tumour when she was about 10, the operation that removed it did something to the part of her brain which controls the left side of her body. She can still walk and pick up things etc, but lost use of fine-motor skills(eg. no more cello playing). She was originally left-handed, had to spend a few years relearning how to do everything right-handed. And she's one of the smartest people I know - dux of her highschool, topped all her subjects except one, excelled at university, high-paying govt job now yadder yadder.
Not that that's proof or anything, but still interesting.

 

[em_516]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

Love the title of this thread.

 

[LAmey08]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

No way, I'm ambidextrous and I'm average.

 

[hairspray]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

I don't think that they're particularly smarter but from experience they are rather more indecisive!

 

[DreamingReality]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

It depends if it's natural or experience. Mostly, experience is what makes people ambidextrous. There are very few occurences where people are naturally both-handed. If it's natural, it means that the brain is stimulated on both sides. If it's experience, it's just that you've used it so many times that your brain recognises the path way and just knows how to do it.

I reckon it's cool though! I wanna be ambidextrous!

 

[theism]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

i remember someone telling me that ambidextrous people tend to have a higher IQ, can someone tell me whether this is true? can you improve your intelligence if you start to use your 'less-used' hand more often? and please tell me your sources...

left handed people tend to be smarter than right handed people.

but then again, that might be because lefties are 10% of the population, and us righties are stuck with the idiots.

 

[inter108]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

i am a fairly good piece of evidence to demonstrate that this theory is full of shit

I agree it's total BS

 

[neeksy45]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

i write and cut with my left hand, but use my knife and fork like a right hander.
i kick with my right foot, bat with my right hand and bowl with my left, play tennis with left hand,play golf right handed, throw balls with my left, and i alternate when i do high jump from left to right. haha it gets confusing remembering what i need.

 

[studentcheese]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

Ambidextrous kids are usually equally good at Maths and English. This is because they can use both right and left hand side of their brain well... Just a theory I heard somewhere, dunno if it's true.

 

[~Natalie:)~]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

well I do just about nothing with my right hand except write and I'm definately not more intelligent because of it. Everything is done the left handed way besides writing and I am nothing more than of average intelligence.

So its probably not true.

 

[charbler]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

Well for the next few weeks I'm going to use my left hand predominantly until I become smart.

 

[boris]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?

well I do just about nothing with my right hand except write and I'm definately not more intelligent because of it. Everything is done the left handed way besides writing and I am nothing more than of average intelligence.

So its probably not true.

Just because it doesn't apply to you does not make something not true.


Fuck there are some stupid cunts in the world.

 

[APCSfan]

Re: are people who are both handed tend to be smarter?


Im a lefty

But i do other random stuff with my right limbs sometimes. eg sports, oh and i brush my teeth with my right hand. Feels weird if i use my left.

Being ambidextrous in everything would be sexy tho