According to statistics, 10-13% of the population is left-handed.
Are you left-handed, and tired of others telling you how you do everything with “the wrong hand”?
Well now you can flex on the haters – according to a new study, being left-handed makes you a lot smarter than your right-handed counterparts.
This is because lefties have a more developed brain, according to the site IFLS.
The left hand, since ancient times, has been connected to beliefs of all kinds, for example, that being left-handed shortens your life – or that you are more likely to end up in jail if you are not right-handed, according to Indy100.
But a new study shows instead, that it is the complete opposite.
Left-handed have a more developed brain
Lefties have on average a larger right hemisphere and a larger corpus callosum than the rest.
This means they have a better spatial perception, cognitive ability and information processing in comparison with the non-left-handed.
Better at maths
A report by IFL Science has gone through different studies on sinistrals – which discovered that, for example, they have a much easier time solving mathematical problems.
The problems varied in difficulty. On the simpler ones, as expected, there wasn’t a significant difference, but once the difficulty increased, the left-handed subjects proved superior by a large margin, according to the site.
This is perhaps not that surprising knowing that several of this world’s most famous geniuses, including Albert Einstein, were left-handed.
So if you ever hear again that you’re doing something with the “wrong hand”, shut them up with the evidence!
Now, press that share button so all your friends can see the truth!
