How many INTPs are Left handed?

[Geek Engineer]

Hey, I was looking at the last post to the "Why are INTP's so rare?" thread. That made me think about this question. If INTPs tend to more right minded then would this mean they tend to be left handed. I myself am left handed so lets see if there is a pattern. Hopefully this hasn't been done before.

So first requirement is that you need to be INTP or at least fairly close. Second is just let us know if you are right handed, left handed, or can use both.. Should be a pretty simple poll, but it is actually my first one so we will see how this goes.

[Ka.avik]

There are certain things I can do with my left hand. But they're associated with things that occupy my right hand. Ping pong, for instance -- I can only serve with my left hand. But I'd be horribly useless trying to play left handed.

[Geek Engineer]

Well so far the right hands win... So far it looks like either everyone is cheating or handiness has no basis for INTPism.

Come on all you left handed INTPs get out the vote!!!! 8O

[T.J.]

I am so right-handed it's not even funny.

Just add to my not-special-enough complex, why don't you?

[Vagabond]

Right handed, but there is a number of things I can do equally well (or better) with my left hand too. So I can't be sure if using the right hand came naturally or I was taught to do it, but from what I've been told I grabbed the pencil with my right hand when I first started to learn how to write.

[Melange]

I write with my right hand, but I do many things such as sports (if I'm ever forced to), opening jars and pushing open doors with my left hand.

[Bugeater]

I write with my right hand, but I can do almost anything left-handed as well. When I first started playing sports, I would always swing things left-handed. For instance, things like a baseball bat, hockey stick, golf club, etc...I would use it as if I were left-handed. But I would throw right-handed (even though I can throw just fine left-handed, too). I think I confused myself, being able to do things both ways and not knowing which way I should do it for certain tasks. Now, I have fun confusing other people. I'll switch my eating utensils periodically through meals, so the person I'm eating with will question what they saw earlier. The best is when I'm eating Chinese food with chopsticks. Most people can't use them with one hand, let alone both.

[Architectonic]

If you saw my writing, you'd conclude that I wasn't 'handed' at all. :P

[cloakable]

I'm mainly left handed, so I selected 'left', but I can do most things with my right, too. Just not so well.

[Dempsey]

Right handed. Yay.

[Serotonin]

Left-handed and special.

Or more specifically:
Fine motor skills: Left-hand
Gross motor skills: Right-hand

[Boneca]

Now, I have fun confusing other people. I'll switch my eating utensils periodically through meals, so the person I'm eating with will question what they saw earlier. The best is when I'm eating Chinese food with chopsticks. Most people can't use them with one hand, let alone both.
Haha, I do the exactly the same thing with chopsticks, and also with pens and pencils.

[FescherAlsDu]

Right-handed.
I remember discovering something the other day that I could only do with my left hand but I can't remember what.

And I draw upside down a lot of the time, especially with detail work. But I think that's irrelevant.

[floyd]

90% of the population is right handed... so to the degree INTPs deviate from that (based on the results thus far, quite substantially), there is a strong right brain component among intps.

the language centers of the brain and finer motor functions are in the left hemisphere, so it make sense that most people (even right brained types) are right handed (as the left hemisphere controls the right hand).

[cwazyonyx]

i am right handed, but fairly ambidextrous with a little effort.

[cwazyonyx]

btw, i would have thought intp's to be pretty balanced between the hemispheres. sure we are quite creative, but we are also quite analytical and logical.

[cwazyonyx]

another btw, i am right handed, but contrary to what was suggested at the end of Gattaca, i do hold it with my left hand when using the bathroom. :whistle:

[Combat]

90% of the population is right handed... so to the degree INTPs deviate from that (based on the results thus far, quite substantially), there is a strong right brain component among intps.


There is also the possibility that left-handed posters are more likely to view this thread, given it's title :)

I'm left-handed, btw.

[Apostasius]

I read somewhere that the concept of handedness is better understood in terms of laterality. Laterality would include things such as hand preference, foot preference, eye dominance, etc.

I am left-handed, left-footed, and right eye dominant (which is extremely annoying for a lefty).

[darlets]

90% of the population is right handed... so to the degree INTPs deviate from that (based on the results thus far, quite substantially), there is a strong right brain component among intps.

the language centers of the brain and finer motor functions are in the left hemisphere, so it make sense that most people (even right brained types) are right handed (as the left hemisphere controls the right hand).
I'm actually quite curious if anyones done studies into handed-ness and MBTI.

Left and Right handed-ness effects how you interact with the world, because you finer moter skills and major tactile centre of you brain is in a totally different hemisphere.

Just by that sample we have here there looks like quite a higher than normal amount of lefties. There are some studies that show handed-ness effects some abilities, Dyslexia (having a very visual view of the world) is alot more common in left handers as they are right hemisphere dominant, I'm curious to know if N's in general are more likely to be left handed (i.e right hemisphere dominant)

[darlets]

I read somewhere that the concept of handedness is better understood in terms of laterality. Laterality would include things such as hand preference, foot preference, eye dominance, etc.

I am left-handed, left-footed, and right eye dominant (which is extremely annoying for a lefty).
True, it's actually how 'one sided' you are. Alot of the Australia cricket players bat left handed but bowl and throw right handed.

[spasmfrog]

I was a lefty when I was a kid and I can still draw left-handed but I don't have the muscle memory to write left-handed anymore. Now I'm a righty, whee. It was simpler that way, being a lefty is a pain in this world and I'm glad I got over it when I was young. :)

[Shimpei]

:offtopic: I'm not an INTP but I'm left handed.

[charred_heart]

i'm a leftie

[darlets]

:offtopic: I'm not an INTP but I'm left handed.
aaaaawwwwwww. We need an "other" section on the poll. :)

[cafe]

We have one lefty in the family. She is an INFP. She uses her left hand for fine motors and her right hand for gross motors.

[rawr]

right handed, but left footed.

[PiccoloNamek]

I use my left hand for fine motor activities like writing and eating, and my right hand for things like using a mouse or throwing a ball.

[INTrPosr]

Hey, I was looking at the last post to the "Why are INTP's so rare?" thread. That made me think about this question. If INTPs tend to more right minded then would this mean they tend to be left handed. I myself am left handed so lets see if there is a pattern. Hopefully this hasn't been done before.That's exactly my theory, however it only means that you have dominant perceiving functions, thus you could be any perceiving type.

[raincrow007]

I chose 'both'.

I was originally left-handed, however my ENTJ mother decided that having a left-handed child was unacceptable, so I became right-handed so far as writing was concerned. There are some activities that I must do left-handed -- playing pool is a good example. I still write with my right hand [and I'll switch to my left if the right becomes tired], but I can draw with either one, and often do.

[earwax]

I voted both. I write and draw left handed, but do almost everything else right handed.

I used to write with either hand, but eventually settled on the left.

When I first picked up a guitar I held it left handed, but the kid who was teaching me told me I was holding it upside down... We were 8 years old, WTF did we know? I turned it over. It's now 40 years later and I play right handed.

[Ryuko]

I could say I'm ambidexterous because I'm equally skilled with both hands in most tasks, but while I could manage to write with my left hand, my right hand is much easier to write with.

I'm curious about all these little things, though. Like, when I have free time, I'd so love to do reasearch about handedness, or other things.

[Fierys]

left handed, able to use both hands in the sports i learned as a child. For example, i can bowl with both hands, i can throw with both hands, catch with both, can only write left handed though.

[Google Monster]

I'm left in hockey, right in baseball, I eat with my left, I write with my right, I hold heavy objects with my left, I throw heavy objects with my right, I spank the monkey with my left, I punch harder with my right.

[attila_the_hunny]

If you write with your left, but masturbate with your right, and use your right hand much more than your left, does that make you ambidextrous?
I'm just curious.

[INTrPosr]

I chose 'both'. I was originally left-handed, however my ENTJ mother decided that having a left-handed child was unacceptable, so I became right-handed so far as writing was concerned.I don't consider that being ambidexterous since you had to teach yourself to be that way instead of it coming to you naturally. If an INTP worked at it, they could develop their weaker functions although they would still naturally use their dominant functions. I see the same for left/right hand. My dad, and school teachers, attempted to make me change hands also.

[Google Monster]

If you write with your left, but masturbate with your right, and use your right hand much more than your left, does that make you ambidextrous?
I'm just curious.
Hmm.. I consider myself a right handed even though my left hand is stronger. Mainly because its my primary writing hand. My father is a lefty though.

[attila_the_hunny]

It's been said left-handers have a shorter lifespan that right-handers.

[Leftfield]

It's been said left-handers have a shorter lifespan that right-handers.

Asinine comment... unless genetics are a factor...

Enlighten me, because of what??? Higher depression due to computer mice catering to the mass collective of right-handed people???

[raincrow007]

I don't consider that being ambidexterous since you had to teach yourself to be that way instead of it coming to you naturally. If an INTP worked at it, they could develop their weaker functions although they would still naturally use their dominant functions. I see the same for left/right hand. My dad, and school teachers, attempted to make me change hands also.

I had a preference for being left-handed, but I didn't find the switch difficult -- mostly I thought it idiotic that there was a stigma concerning left-handedness.

[attila_the_hunny]

Asinine comment... unless genetics are a factor...

Enlighten me, because of what??? Higher depression due to computer mice catering to the mass collective of right-handed people???

It's not my personal belief or results from a freaky little test, I merely just stated it's been said. I'll enlighten you--go practice your reading comprehension before you get all ??//?/? next time. I only posted it because it pertained to the thread.

[Google Monster]

Him having "left" in his username might have pushed his buttons.

[attila_the_hunny]

Him having "left" in his username might have pushed his buttons.

So I picked the "right" button to push, then? :)

[Google Monster]

So I picked the "right" button to push, then? :)
If his responce was what you expected, then yes. ;)

[Leftfield]

It's not my personal belief or results from a freaky little test, I merely just stated it's been said. I'll enlighten you--go practice your reading comprehension before you get all ??//?/? next time. I only posted it because it pertained to the thread.

Pet peeve... "it's been said" (sorry atilla)

That's a huge button for me because it could have been said by President W. Bush, a research scientist or Billy Bob down in Mobile, AL... I like to have some support with claims of "it's been said" to know where you came up with it...

I'm an INTJ, it's in my blood to discover the truth via science. I'm right handed btw, both parents are lefties...

[attila_the_hunny]

That's a huge button for me because it could have been said by President W. Bush, a research scientist or Billy Bob down in Mobile, AL... I like to have some support with claims of "it's been said" to know where you came up with it...

I read it in an MSN article, but there are conflicting results, which is why I didn't bother to post anything. It wasn't like I just pulled it out of my ass.

[cryingmime]

I read it in an MSN article, but there are conflicting results, which is why I didn't bother to post anything. It wasn't like I just pulled it out of my ass.
that sounds like something headfonez would say.

:whistle:

r

[Google Monster]

:rofl:

[attila_the_hunny]

that sounds like something headfonez would say.

:whistle:

r

But he really does pull most things out of his ass. Probably with his left hand.

[earwax]

It's been said left-handers have a shorter lifespan that right-handers.
I have heard this... I suspect it's due to ink poisoning.

[Google Monster]

So his information would probably be crap.

[attila_the_hunny]

So his information would probably be crap.

Or corn. Whichever.

[INTrPosr]

I had a preference for being left-handed, but I didn't find the switch difficult -- mostly I thought it idiotic that there was a stigma concerning left-handedness.Not sure of your age Raincrow, but when growing up there was no such thing as left handed scissors or left handed school desks, etc. The middle finger of my left hand developed callouses from using right handed scissors and I recall the uncomfortableness of having to reach across my body to write. Those were things that society did not take into account, therefore you found even school teachers attempting to correct you. I guess I never gave it too much thought and just adapted. To this day, people who see me with a watch on my right wrist will question me on it.

[Rhu]

To this day, people who see me with a watch on my right wrist will question me on it.

I got questioned when someone noticed I was eating with my left hand (also wearing glasses) when meeting with some family for the first time earlier this summer. These were marks of practioners of the dark arts, apparently. Oddly, though, my family members greeted this more with fascination than with fear or revulsion. The reaction was more a smiling and winking sort of, "Oh-ho-hoooo, so that's your secret to being successful because you live in America!" Nevermind the facts that (a) this doesn't make sense and (b) I'm not actually any sort of success.

The superstitious sorts still believe in stuff like the definition of sinister (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/sinister)--I suppose any sort of rarity should be feared and dreaded.

[bergenski]

Left-handed INTPs are the coolest/craziest of the cool/crazy.

[Arcturus]

Very left handed. Except when it comes to batting...

[Arcturus]

Oh, I also just remembered that I have to use scissors right handed. There were never enough lefty scissors in grade school to go around, so I just learned on the normal ones.

[SeierTapt]

I write and catch/throw left-handed, but I play guitar/bass/drums right-handed. I've also been asked a few times about my watch being on my right wrist.

[Google Monster]

I write and catch/throw left-handed, but I play guitar/bass/drums right-handed. I've also been asked a few times about my watch being on my right wrist.
I used to wear my watch on the right side until I realized that the options on the watch are easier to use on the left.