I'm a lefty and I don't mind admitting that I'm a dumby.
I've always believed that academics are people who can make a mountain out of an Anthill without adding any earth.
I'm a lefty and I don't mind admitting that I'm a dumby.
I've always believed that academics are people who can make a mountain out of an Anthill without adding any earth.
True dat.
jean wrote:
Actually a study was presented in the Mensa magazine, about 25 years ago, that indicated mathematically-precocious children are--as you move from high levels to the highest levels--more frequently nearsighted, asthmatic, male, and lefthanded.
As someone pointed out above, standard deviation is the answer. Just as there are more high-IQ boys than girls--and more boys in special-ed classes, as well--so there are more genius lefties (and retarded lefties) than you would expect from their proportion of the overall population.
I'm the only righthanded member of a lefthanded family, so these are things I pay attention to...
This is interesting...I have a tested IQ of 121 (not an internet test--done by a psychiatrist when I was diagnosed with ADD), scored a 29 on the ACT, had asthma symptoms until the age of 20, have been nearsighted my entire life, and, of course, I am left handed. Just an anecdote, sample size of one, but interesting how closely that describes me.
Maybe its genetic.
Agree there. Also Turing was pure genius.
26mi235 wrote:
I guess Newton was lucky because that apple hit him on the head when he was still a teenager developing a lot of physics and mathematics in a year. I prefer to rank the top physicists into modern and pre-modern so that I can keep both Newton and Einstein as number one; I would probably go with Newton in the combined classification because he accomplished what he did in an era when there was little scientific method for guidance (and the math stuff).
By the way, was one of the biggest heavyweights of all time - Gauss - left handed. An advanced math book I read in grad school had half pages to a page for the great mathematicians but they had nine for Gauss.
Not really wrote:With the exception of Beethoven, Leonardo DaVinci, and Michelangelo, those people were all luckier than they were talented.
Lucky enough to have a fantastic idea, or lucky enough to stumble across a discovery, or lucky enough to be in the right place, with the right philosophy.
Standard deviation is the short answer.
So, I am whole brained, right handed, got a 34/1500 on act/sat national merit blah blah blah.
the kicker is...
I have prehensile toes. How does that fit with your theory lefty?
Incidentally, us right handed smart people used to beat the left handedness out of you dorks, but the PC crowd has kept us from it (they are all probably left handed) and now there are a bunch of whiners out there blabbing about how great left handedness is.
My left-handedness allowed me to own you on the SAT. That's a pretty good score (for a rightie), though.
what about this? wrote:
So, I am whole brained, right handed, got a 34/1500 on act/sat national merit blah blah blah.
the kicker is...
I have prehensile toes. How does that fit with your theory lefty?
Incidentally, us right handed smart people used to beat the left handedness out of you dorks, but the PC crowd has kept us from it (they are all probably left handed) and now there are a bunch of whiners out there blabbing about how great left handedness is.
I write left-handed, throw spears right-handed, got 34ACT/1540SAT (2250 w/ writing), national merit, decent at most physical activities but not great, but not much of an artist. My academic strengths are primarily in the hard sciences, although I don't really SUCK at anything, with the exception of getting girls. But that's ok, because everyone else here has the same problem.
More gifted? Depends on what you're talking about I suppose.
Yep...lefties may tend to have greater math abilities, but you can argue that this is offset by their relatively weak linguistic abilities.
You win some and you lose some...get used to it.
Leave Newton off of the list. Without him, we would still have the laws of gravity.
Leave Ford off of the list. Without him we would still have mass production.
Leave the presidents off of the list. Without them, we would still have politics.
Without Beethoven we would not have the 5th Symphony.
Without DaVinci, no Mona Lisa.
Without Michaelangelo, no Pieta or Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
The list goes on and on.
Creative genius comes in right or left handed people.
there is also an over represntation of left handed people with depression.
Labeling someone as "gifted" based on a test is such bullshit. Mozart, DaVinci, Michaelangelo... those guys never took any test to tell us they were gifted. We call them gifted because of the enormous contributions that they made to their field and to society. In contrast, most of today's "gifted" people have done nothing for humanity, and only have that label because their parents pushed them to take a multiple choice test when they were young.