By Tunde Ajala
No doubt, people who use their right hand, usually called righties, are a lot more than the few who use their left hand, known as lefties. And in very few cases, some people are able to use the two. Previous studies had pointed out that about 90 per cent of the total population are righties while the remaining 10 per cent are lefties, with men lefties having a higher population than women. But beyond people’s handedness, which is their tendency to use either their right or left hand more naturally than the other, it appears that natural tendency influences people’s sexuality, intelligence and behavioural and thought patterns. This implies that the lefties and righties are different from one another in many ways. In fact, a study found that apart from being more sexually active, lefties are usually satisfied with their sex lives than those who use their right hand.
The study, which was carried out by a Swedish sex toy company, LELO, was designed to determine the connection between people’s handedness and their sexuality. Out of the about 10,000 people that were surveyed, whom were asked how satisfied they were with their sex lives, a whopping 86 per cent of left-handed people said they were “extremely satisfied” with their sex lives, compared to a mere 15 per cent of righties. The researchers, however, pointed out that whilst in the womb, lefties are more exposed to testosterone, which is a steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex. They also found that the hormone makes them more assertive, making them more dominant during sex, and that both men and women have the tendency. But another study by the University of Michigan, United States, pointed out that, apart from men, women that have an increased testosterone levels are also more likely to have better sex and more frequently too.
In yet another study by the Wayne State University, two groups of men (lefties and righties) were assigned to ‘score’ with the same woman. After the exercise, lefties were found to have a better performance than the righties. In terms of intelligence variation between lefties and righties, a study conducted by St. Lawrence University in the US found that lefties are more intelligent because they use the two sides of their brain, noting that in the study it carried out, left-handed people had intelligence quotient of over 140 than their right-handed counterparts. Also, among the high test scorers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, it was found that about 22 per cent are lefties, signalling their intelligence, in spite of their small percentage of 10 per cent of the population. “Given that there are few lefties compared to righties, lefties should celebrate their difference,” the study said.
Despite the (lefties) 1 to (righties) 10 ratio, left-handed people make up about 40 per cent of Mensa, which is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at least 98 per cent or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Beyond that, it was found that lefties also produce genius babies and they are able to multitask because they are able to force their brain to think more quickly. But what really determines people’s handedness? Noteworthy is the fact that only human beings have been found to have varied handedness, but some neurologists explained that what determines people’s handedness is the hand that the baby holds to the mouth while in the womb and another theory says that a foetus with high testosterone while in the uterus is more likely to be a lefty. The neurologists, according to healthland.time.com, explained that parts of the brain responsible for thinking and intellectual skills are centered in the left hemisphere while the emotional and mood-related functions are concentrated in the right hemisphere.
“This also explains why left-handed people tend to be more vulnerable to fear and negative emotions, such as anger. Also, left-handers have more symmetry between the right and left sides of their brains compared with right-handers, and that can have implications for everything from language to motor skills,” they added. It appears there are more benefits for being a left-handed person than the intelligence and sexual advantage. It has been found that lefties are better athletes and more creative because they rely on the right side of their brains more, which is used for activities needing imagination, emotions and creativity. Also because their brains work differently, with both hemispheres communicating together and stimulating interaction in those parts of the brain that deal with creativity. It has also been said that they tend to drink more, they are more emotionally connected and they have a better sense of rhythm, which enables them to remember the tunes of songs better than righties.
According to dailyinfographic.com, a study had pointed out that left-handed men are, on the average, 15 per cent richer than right-handed men for those who attend college and 26 per cent richer if they graduate. According to the report, lefties are believed to reach puberty four to five months after right-handers and that they are three times more likely to become alcoholics, compared to righties. The report said that if both parents are left-handed, half of their offspring will be left-handed while two right-handed parents only have a two per cent chance of having a lefty, while noting that the older a mother is, the more likely she is to give birth to left-handed children. And on a lighter note, due to the fact that they could handle large amount of stimuli, lefties are better at playing video games. In his reaction, a medical practitioner, Dr. Rotimi Adesanya, said the intelligence of lefties could largely be attributed to the position of the dominant side of the brain in their own nervous system, adding that the muscular activities they engage in enable them to release more testosterone hormone.
He said, “If you are right-handed, your dominant side is on the left but if you are left-handed, the dominant part will be on the right, so lefties tend to be more intelligent because of the position of the dominant side of their brain. “Also, they are usually involved in active sports, which we can attribute to the increase in the level of testosterone. The muscular activities they do can make them to release more of it, just as testosterone is part of what makes men to be more active than women. So, if we want to use that analogy, we can say that lefties are more likely to have higher testosterone than righties.”
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