Paul McCartney
Study fights the belief that left -handed people are more creative than their destruction. Until the opposite happens.
The list includes Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Paul McCartney; or Bill Gates, Nikola Tesla and Marie Curie. All left -handed And all especially creative in your area.
We grew up with the belief that this “Clube dos Canhotos” is special. Only people write with their left hand; But it seemed that the probability of finding “geniuses” was greater in this small group.
But this old belief – that left -handed people are, by nature, more creative than the right -hand contradicted for a new one.
Researchers at the University of Cornell concluded that There is no scientific evidence who suggest that left -handed individuals or ambideons overcome the right -handed people in terms of creative thinking.
The study analyzed the alleged link between laterality and creativity, a theory often associated with differences between cerebral hemispheres.
Although left -handed has been traditionally associated with greater use of the right brain hemisphere – usually related to divergent thinking – researchers did not find any advantage of lefties in creativity tests.
Until the contrary: The distracted ones had slightly superior results in the widely used “alternative uses test”, which evaluates divergent thinking by measuring the number of new uses that a person can propose to everyday objects.
To extend the analysis, the team examined data from nearly 12,000 individuals in over 770 professions.
By classifying occupations according to the levels of originality and inductive reasoning, the study positioned physicists, mathematicians and plastic artists among the most creative professions.
Contrary to popular perception, it was found that the Cannhotos are sub-reported In these highly creative domains, although they are over-presented in the areas of music and visual arts.
“People see many left -handed musicians and artists and assume that all lefties are more creative. When you observe a wide variety of professions, the supposed advantage disappears“Summarize the authors of the study, cited in the magazine.
This investigation came to another conclusion: among the nearly thousand scientific articles on the subject, Only 17 met the criteria necessary. Thus it is explained that previous studies presented the idea of a creative advantage of lefties.
