Who are the majority? right-brained or left-brained people?

Question

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Answer 1

Typically left-brained people are right handed.  These seem to be in the majority.  In the United States only 15 to 20 percent of the population is left-handed.  But this really depends upon what you are calling right-brained and left-brained people.  Even professionals are apt to read more into this than what reality reflects.

No human with two operating hands will use only one hand to perform most tasks.  Even if they have a dominant handedness, many people come close to being ambidextrous.

Until recently, children who showed a preference for their left hand were often punished to promote right hand use.  This is still true in some parts of the world.

What might be more important is learning to deal with the thought patterns believed to be associated with "brainedness" and the ability to swap or switch from one method to the other.

The concept of the dominance of one one hemisphere over the other is very controversial, especially with regards to differences in the s*x of the subject, their artistic or creative ability or development of mathematics and logic.  Recent brain mapping data using many more subjects and mapping techniques has cast doubts upon the early conclusions leading to the "brainedness" of individuals.

Brain activity has little detailed correlation with behavior traits (other than motor skills) and current mapping techniques are generalities, often with more exceptions than rules.

If this is for a class, tell the professor whatever he or she wants to hear.  If this if for your own information, chalk the subject up to "hair brained" idea and place it with all of the anthropology data about human races.

Answer 2

Left & Right brain dominance does not only manifest in right & left handed people...

Men are genrally Left-Hemisphere of the brain dominant, and women are generally Right-Hemisphere of the brain dominant, and men and women usually come in equal numbers!