Lefties make up only about 10 percent of the population, but studies find that individuals who are left-handed score higher when it comes to creativity, imagination, daydreaming and intuition. They’re also better at rhythm and visualization.

No, Jennifer is right-handed. There are numerous instances where Jennifer is using her right hand.

Katniss Everdeen: Her left-handedness may not be “Hunger Games” canon, but teaching Jennifer Lawrence to shoot a bow and arrow right-handed would have been more difficult than finding southpaw scissors at a back-to-school sale.

Left-handers are more likely to have speech problems and learning disabilities, and they tend to fall in the lowest percentage of scores on math and reading test more often than righties.

Sinister, today meaning evil or malevolent in some way, comes from a Latin word simply meaning “on the left side.” “Left” being associated with evil likely comes from a majority of the population being right handed, biblical texts describing God saving those on the right on Judgment day, and images depicting Eve on …

A 1967 study by Douglas, found no evidence to correlate mathematical ability with left-handedness or ambidexterity. The study compared the people who came in the top 15% of a mathematics examination with those of moderate mathematical ability, and found that the two groups’ handedness preferences were similar.

Some studies found the two groups’ handedness preferences were similar, other studies, on the contrary, say left-handers are strongest at math and right-handers are the weakest. The participants had to perform various math tasks like simple arithmetic or problem-solving.

Top 10 Lefties

• Oprah Winfrey.
• Babe Ruth.
• Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Leonardo da Vinci.
• Marie Curie.
• Aristotle.
• Ned Flanders.
• Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix played guitar upside down and backwards, and to his devout fans’ parents, it probably sounded like it.

The problem is, Einstein’s left-handedness is a myth. While he was certainly right-handed, autopsies suggest his brain didn’t reflect the typical left-side dominance in language and speech areas. His brain’s hemispheres were more symmetrical—a trait typical of left-handers and the ambidextrous.

Overall, left-handers are not more creative and are not more right-brained, artistic and less logical than right-handers. Left-handers do not live shorter lives and the average left-hander is no more prone to accidents or disease than the average right-hander.

Surprisingly, even though this skill is so connected to the brain, ambidextrous people tend to be more in tune with their physical abilities than their mental ones. It may be for this reason that they tend to perform more poorly on general intelligence tests than people who favor one hand.

Left-handed people tend to live significantly shorter lives than right-handers, perhaps because they face more perils in a world dominated by the right-handed, according to new research. Right-handed men lived 10 years longer than left-handed men, the report said. The researchers, Dr.

Special or not, lefties are born, not made: Genetics are at least partially responsible for handedness. Up until last year, it was assumed that hand preference comes from asymmetrical genes in the brain—two hands, two brain hemispheres, one is dominant.