Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they’re not
Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they’re not
Scouring more than a century of studies, Cornell researchers found left-handers are actually underrepresented in the most creative fields, contrary to popular perception.
its hard to be right winger and a Scientist, and not trying to use pseudoscience or EUGENICS, or religion, which already makes you a quack "expert". like the alleged scientist framing psychology in a race-based way.
Without reading is it about handedness or political leaning?
Handedness
is correlated with sex abuse:
Ah, it got me 😅
I thought it was political at first, too.
There's a strong correlation there.
Makes sense that if your political views include that whether you deserve to stay alive is tied to how much value you create for shareholders, you spend less time nurturing your creativity.
Empathy. Understanding what causes emotional reactions and building on that rather than doing your own routine and being mad others won't agree with you.
Conservative comedians continually get "canceled" because their act only punches down and makes fun of other people, so their content only resonates with their own demographic. They lose audience because their content goes stale. There's a difference between the punchline being that the target is gay vs the punchline being what a gay person does and capturing that nuance. Adam Corolla had the same boring complaints about society, about economy cars, about not seeing enough tits, about sucking dick, over and over. Robin Williams was the full spectrum of range from Good Will Hunting to his stand up to his Genie and Doubtfire and Birdcage (separating from acting because of his amount of successful adlib).
Conservative actors only know one role: their idealized selves. I bet you they're a tough guy with no emotional range, shadowing John Wayne pretending to be a cowboy. Joe Pesci is a real NYC tough guy. That's his act, condescending tough guy. Even with his peak of comedic performance, Vinny, he was just the same character but brought hilarity by being woefully out of place for the plot. Robert De Niro was a theater kid. He makes bank as a mobster but imagine trying to watch Pesci play Captain Shakespeare in Stardust.
Conservative painters/physical media artists... I can't think of any. Maybe I'm just uninformed. Closest I can think of are some photographers that produce images I call "informational" rather than artistic. Capturing a moment in time as if the street view car just drove by, not capturing a mood or feeling.
Anyway, I wonder if the handedness is actually rooted in which kids were tormented in a strict Christian school vs who had a more explorative and welcoming upbringing. Not that people don't come out as lefties alter, but that's gotta hamper their skill-honing years for art.
Additional meta-analysis confirmed that left-handers are overrepresented among artists and musicians – but not architects, as is often claimed. Expanding their investigation beyond those fields, the team re-analyzed data from a large study drawing upon U.S. government surveys with information on occupations and handedness. The data included nearly 12,000 individuals in more than 770 professions, which were ranked by the creativity each required. By this measure combining “originality” and “inductive reasoning,” physicists and mathematicians ranked alongside fine artists as the most creative jobs. When considering the full range of professions, the researchers found, left-handers were underrepresented in those that required the most creativity.
I thought the whole left brain/right brain thing was discredited already. This appears to confirm it's not the case.
The left and the right brain actually do different things in people. Just look at the epyleptic studies where they surgically separated the two halves of the brain. When blocking off the right part of the eye, those people were not able to name every day objects like a pencil. But they could pick it up and use it. When blocking off the left side of the eye they were able to call it a pencil, but not use it.
Yes, to an extent they do different things, but that's not what the person you were replying to was talking about. For several years there was this idea that "left-handed people are right-brain dominant, and right-handed people are left-brain dominant." And along with that went this whole astrology-tinged thing about the right brain being the creative half and the left brain being the analytic half and whatnot. It's pretty much nonsense.
Im a lefty, with zero creativity. In fact, I've heard all my life that it was the opposite, that right handed people were more creative, so maybe its just junk science from the beginning, after all.
Same here. Both my brother and I are left-handed. I'm the analytical engineering type. He's the musician type. I'm about as creative as an algorithm. He got the creative talent genes in the family.
Lefties do it right!
Maybe so. But righties make trash.
they are good and producing trash, nothing else.
They can’t even meme right