Eshan Maitra
If you are a lefty and already can relate do this, good for you. Ones who can’t, start working that dumb complex brain of yours, you have the potential. A major study University of Liverpool in the UK finally were able to investigate out some of the most interesting facts about the lefties. Their main goal was to determine whether they are better at math than others. They went through hell lotta research and surveying to reach such conclusion. They finally amazed everyone at this year’s British Psychological Society Annual Conference. Their work is soon to be published as a journal.
These interesting group of researchers were able to gather over 2,300 students of age six to seventeen, in Italy and observe their performances. Of course each of them were given tasks only according to their standards. They were also determined of their lefty-ness/righty-ness through the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory test. Their math result sheet statistics showed that the difference among the lefties and righties were merely there when it came about the children. Mainly odds were observed at peak among the teenagers. Especially the male lefties had shown great difference and having advantages over processing their math problems.
It is no surprise that lefties use certain part of the brains in their various tasks as secondary or assisting part, that are rarely used by the average righties people. These kind of brain processing complex they are often quite crafty, creative and has advantages over arithmetic. About the final conclusion the lead researcher Giovanni Sala regarded that, “This study found there is a moderate, yet significant, correlation between handedness and mathematical skill. Moreover, the amount of variance in the maths scores explained by handedness was about 5-10 percent, a surprisingly high percentage for a variable like handedness.”
Still determining all these were very complex. Even if lefty-ness is biological, has been a big mystery, which have attracted many researchers before. After all, 10% of the global population are lefty. On that Sala regarded to ‘The Daily Mail’, “We found that the degree of handedness predicted mathematical performance in different ways, according to age, type of task, and gender. It’s not easy to convey the message.
We ran five experiments, and in every experiment the relationship between math performance and handedness was different.”
The team is still working on developing ‘the conception of a new and more comprehensive model of the phenomenon’.