While the article is devoid of anything that resembles proof of the assertion I do not believe that it is true. Being left handed I would agree that it confers

While the article is devoid of anything that resembles proof of the assertion I do not believe that it is true. Being left handed I would agree that it confers some advantage, there is a common belief that left handers are natural born leaders, I think there may be some truth to that. The theory goes that because they are south paws the won more in combat and therefore attained leadership roles those that where good leaders passed on the trait. History does seem to be skewed in favor of left handed leaders but it is just corollary at best. Anyways, I do being that left handedness confers some intelectual capacity hence the IQ test but I think more that anything we think entirely foreign to right handers and I think this is why left handers seem to make intellectual leaps, not because they are smarter but because they mentally process the problem very different. Anyone that follows my post knows that I am very vocal about whiteboard tests for programmers and the difference in how left handers think has a lot to do with my view point on whiteboard test. I think they filter out left handers by the very nature of how they are set up which is very much how a right hander thinks. A buddy and I got in to a discussion about how I solve tough problems and I said well I close my eyes or go for a walk and I dream about it. He looked at me puzzled and said you just dream it up? and I said yes it seemed so foreign to him but to a left hander it will sound very familiar. We hand off problems to the creative processing center of our brain and it deals with it. It is very different that the analytical part of the brain that sequentially breaks down an issue. Here is the deal though that dreaming, cannot be rushed, it comes when it comes and if someone cannot focus due to the environment say an interview one cannot activate the creative part of their brain. Hence I think the whiteboard in interview filters out the most creative individuals.