I figured the title would get everyone's attention... but it really does have to do with hands.

I was just thinking about it and was wondering something.  I have always heard it mentioned that the right side of your brain is the creative side and your dominate hand is controlled by the opposite hemisphere of your brain.  So I was wondering how accurate that was. 

I tend to see myself as creative and I know my wife is and we are both left handed so I wanted to see if this was actually a left hand dominated industry. 

In reality I know the majority of people in the world are right handed so I would think that the same would apply here.  My guess is that either this is just a well known myth or more of a scientific theory than a fact...

Now after this long winded explanation I was just wondering what the actual facts are here... since this is suppose to be a creative type industry.

Also it would be interesting to see the difference between the work of a right handed person in this industry against a left handed person.  If there is any real difference at all...

So if everyone would just tell us what your dominate hand is we can begin the testing...lol

I'm right handed

Right handed

Lefty here.


Useless with the right hand, short of a zippy shutter finger:)

Right handed in the literal sense, but ambidextrous in many ways.

Right handed, but effectively ambidextrous in all things but handwriting.

Some of us can use both sides equally!

Best of both worlds and no there is no conflict........ its harmonious!

I'm ambidextrous.  I always come out right around 50/50 on brain hemisphere dominance tests.  I was told by a psychological researcher once that makes me statistically prone to mental illness.  How can you get more creative than that?

Edit: where's Click Hamilton?  If he shows up, you'll know why it's relevant.

left handed grasshopper

When one gets tired, I just switch to the ....ooops....wait a minute.... Oh....OK...I'm right handed.

Right handed, but fairly coordinated with my left as well. Not quite ambidexterous.

Left-handed.

Ambidextrous.

I've met a far higher concentration of left-handed people in my artistic associations than elsewhere in the day to day world.

Very unscientific study, but seems to bear out the theory.

At one of our workshops, I think we had four or 5 lefties in the room - like half the people present that day.

I write with my left hand, and do most other things nearly equally with my left even if the right is slightly stronger for some tasks.

left brain/right brain is not generally considered valid science anymore in terms of creative/analytical

For the sake of discussion, I'm both mathematically and creatively oriented, and ambidextrous. I write with my right, but sign (American Sign Language) left-dominant. I can eat with either hand with equal ease, even with chop sticks.

I'm a lefty!

Dominant write BUT i can write with both..

I'm right-handed but I can ONLY swing a bat or a golf club lefty. Been that way my whole life. I also seem to have slightly better dexterity with my left-hand than most right-handers but I wouldn't call myself ambidextrous.

Both my maternal grandfather and maternal uncle were exactly the opposite: They were lefties but could only swing bats and clubs like right-handed people. Neither of them were particularly creative. Go figure.

I have no idea what all that means as it applies to right-brained/left-brained but I do think there's some weird genetic things going on here.

My children are both right-handed and do pretty much everything like right-handed people do.

Right handed, but that's the only thing my damn left brain is good for.

Righty here, proving artistic talent squarely rests in the right hemisphere