Are you more likely to be gifted/smarter if your left handed than right handed?

[MissCatholic]

People in sport always talk about the difference a lefty makes on a game. whether its bat and ball sports like baseball, tennis or golf commentators always say how important they are. In soccer it always important to have players that can play with both feet, but finding left sided players are harder to find and they end up being more expensive to buy (robben, vicente, roberto carlos etc)

Throughout society people still say 'oh look your a lefty' like its some sign or something.

I dont know if they have ever studied any differences between right and left handed people but are you more likely to be gifted/smarter if your left handed than right handed.

[MissCatholic]

I've known several highly intelligent and gifted lefties (my Linear Algebra professor, for example), and several not-so-smart lefties, so I wouldn't insist that there's any relationship between being left-handed and smart. It's kind of like saying that men are smarter than women (men tend to be distributed at both extremes of the intelligence scale, with plenty of genius-level males and plenty of not-so-smart ones). Left-handed people are fewer in number, so naturally they are going to get noticed more often than right-handed ones.

men tend to be better at thinking laterally while women try and break everything down to its foundations and try and work from there. i do believe that men are better at science and math than women.

[minionofmidas]

There is a  theory that lefthanders, as rightbrainsiders, are somehow more gifted at certain things but it appears not to be correct.

In baseball, cricket, tennis, boxing etc, being a lefthander simply is a strategic advantage because everybody has played more righthanders than lefthanders in his career.
Same thing with leftfooters in football - notice there's no direct relation between being leftfooted and being lefthanded, btw.

[MODU]

I don't think it matters one way or another.

[John Dibble]

In baseball, cricket, tennis, boxing etc, being a lefthander simply is a strategic advantage because everybody has played more righthanders than lefthanders in his career.

Correct. This was actually also applied to castle designs - tower staircases were round with the wall being on the side that made it difficult for right handers to fight if they were trying to ascend the tower.

[Hatman 🍁]

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