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.
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Without reading is it about handedness or political leaning?
Ah, it got me 😅
Handedness
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.
There is a lot of creativity in the manufacturing world. I'm think more where someone repurposes the engine of their weed whacker to build some contraception that can split a piece of wood into 10 pieces in one go. It's not safe, by it works.
I agree that the traditional arts are more left leaning. Music could be one of those where it's more balanced. Country music is full of fake cowboy conservatives, and rock isn't without it's shit heads either.
I'm in manufacturing/engineering. There's no political definition for who takes the jobs, but I do believe their political leanings very closely align with their office personalities. There's the type that complains when someone takes some _liber_ties in the process, and then there's the type that sits for a minute trying to understand that alternate thought process (although usually met with the initial disapproval). There's the type that writes processes the way they think it should work, then there's the type that will convene with and cooperate with the actual affected workers before and after writing it. But at the same time, despite being rooted in science and hard evidence, compartmentalization is widely available. My household PhD is the most religious person in the office. The person is nice, smart, and competent to the point we filter our profanity around the PhD. Potentially the most creative engineer in the office (or most cocky with expenditure risk) is also one of the most obvious conservatives. Sort of like everyone must follow the social rules except for his design ideas.
The redneck engineers you're talking about are probably people who didn't get the formal education or don't have the corporate bankroll to take their work further
"Nobody wants to work anymore" is a fast track to identifying their news/political commentary sources. As if Janet in accounting dreamt of sending "month end inventory call" emails when she was a girl.
For music, I'd venture that the conservative stars are generally making their version of pop. It's not a rule itself, but a core of conservatism is following a set of existing rules because deviation is ostracized
I think even music leans pretty hard to the left overall, just with the exception of certain genres.
obviously written by a rightey
Because we have to create a way to write notes without smearing the ink on the page at a very early age.
Just do what I did, learn to write with your right hand. As a bonus only you will be able to read your own handwriting, at least some of the time.
Have you considered medical school? It sounds like you have a natural predisposition to the field.
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.
I think the issue is the study treated it as a binary thing...
Handedness isn't binary, very few things are when talking about human anatomy.
Like, 4 wheel drive is an equal 50/50 split. Then obviously full front/rear drive.
But "all wheel drive" can be anything from 80/20 to 60/40, or theoretically any random ratio.
So while people who prefer their left hand. There's a difference between a sleight preference and someone who's right hand is so useless it's easier to hold a guitar upside down.
Those people at the extreme end may be more creative when isolated out as a subgroup
Or maybe they just stand out holding the guitar upside down, making people see a pattern that isn't really there. For instance, while Jimi Hendrix played the guitar upside down, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck did not.
You didn't understand my comment
But instead of asking questions you...
Just did whatever it was you tried to do there.
If you want to get better, ask more questions. Of someone else, obviously.
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Lefties do it right!
Maybe so. But righties make trash.
They can’t even meme right