I was recently having a conversation with my friend about intelligent people. He said that most of the intelligent people that he knew were left handed. Me being left handed was flattered but told him that what he said couldn't be true. So then he told me to ask all of my "go friends online" if they were left handed or not. Random question yes; but I want to know.

I'm actually working on using both but I'm predominantly left handed.

Hmm, but he seems to be implying all Go players are intelligent... .

I'm left-handed when I eat, but I write right-handed.

I'm not left handed... maybe that's why I'm not intelligent.

Some of the left-handed people that I know are good at sports.

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Left-handed and right-eyed. All my openings are diagonal!

Bruce "Squinty" Young

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Proeminently right handed, but I mouse left-handed, and can do a few other things badly switching hands.

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a1h1 [1d]: You just need to curse the gods and defend.
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I am left handed and because of this I tend to notice left handed students in my classes. I have to admit, if I were to divide my students into top half of the class and bottom half then the percentage of left handers in the top would always be higher. I have never done a statistical study of it (perhaps I should) but I would be willing to bet that the difference is statistically significant. Of course, the percentages in each half are still low. It would take a big sample here at GD to give any convincing evidence. And we would need to know the percentage of left handers in the population in general. Does anyone know that?

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

Wikipedia says: "seven to ten percent of the adult population is left-handed.[citation needed]"

So no definitive figure there.

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a1h1 [1d]: You just need to curse the gods and defend.
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Associação Portuguesa de Go

It's not really possible to have a truly definitive figure. You could have a more reliable figure for how many people actually write left-handed (and I believe that the 10% figure is fairly reliably verified for users of the Roman alphabet) but there's so much else to laterality/handedness that it's not all that meaningful.

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i use both, but i cant write with my left, do most things just as well with it as my right though

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"Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it."

I am so right handed that my left hand usually just gets in the way.

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Michael Dobbins; Dragon: mdobbins, KGS: mgd, AGA#: 4253,
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I know how you feel. My right hand, arm and leg are mere appendages used to balance things.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

I'm left handed.

What's interesting is that I used to hand out with a group of 7 other people ... out of the 8 of us, 4 were left handed.

Anyways, I suppose I could be considered somewhat intelligent ... I can dress myself almost all by myself! (seriously, I put my shirt on inside out way too often, among other clothing mistakes)

I'm right handed, but there are a couple of things I do as left handed people; at least shooting a rifle and playing cards (although since most bridge decks have symbols on only two corners I have been forced to learn to hold the cards as right handed, I still deal with my left).

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Left handed.

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Totally right-handed. But my father is originally left-handed, so maybe I have it in my genes I mean, I have an Tickle(random-two-hour-online-test)-IQ of 133, right, ha? =D

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Accordine to the results, that's not the case, pheew



Exactly the same.

I'm right handed, but I prefer my left feat/leg for soccer, climbing stairs ect.

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Laurens
Go school: freegame's Teaching School
Author of: The Next Move a book for 15-3kyu players.

Everyone knows the real test for intelligence is the ability to tie your own shoelaces!

Luckily they have invented loafers.

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