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I found a very interesting article from a newspaper from 2005.
It was about difference and characteristics by ethnic groups, usually Asians.
There was a part about the right/left brain,
that the ratio of *right-brain superior type population : left-brain superior type population (This may be a bad translation, original text in Korean 右腦優勢形 人口 : 左腦優勢形 人口) differs a lot by ethnic groups(race, nationality).

Korea 7:3

Turkey, Egypt 6:4

US, China, Italy, Spain 5:5

India, Thailand 4:6

Japan 3:7

Netherlands, UK, Germany, Israel, Greece 2:8


What I thought is, maybe this is related to the go playing style, or the way of thinking.
e.g. RJ is German....
Left-brain would like conventional and theoretic moves, while right-brain would prefer creative and aggressive moves.

Also, it can relate with playing speed. To me, it was very interesting to see western go beginners(15k+) thinking more than 10 seconds:). Koreans, however play one second blitz when they first learn go, 5 second blitz when they first get a rank, 10 second blitz when they first become SDK. They get slower as becoming stronger, but still Korean dan players play much faster than Europeans on KGS.

rlaalswo wrote:I found a very interesting article from a newspaper from 2005.

Sounds interesting but what newspaper did you see this article in? Also, what was the date and title of the article?

Thanks, and while such research results sound credible to me we should keep in mind that these are statistics and can only give tendencial results, there will always be individuals who out of whatever reasons are just the other way ’round. So-called “Third Culture Kids”, for example, children wo come from one culture and grow up in another (I’m one, BTW ), can have very interesting mixes of left-right-brainyness.

Dazz wrote:

rlaalswo wrote:I found a very interesting article from a newspaper from 2005.

Sounds interesting but what newspaper did you see this article in? Also, what was the date and title of the article?

http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mod ... 0000020363
Here I found the original article, which is from the Korean Government Information Agency internet service - http://www.korea.kr/main.do.

My friend who does some study on genetics gave me this print, and the numerical right:left ratio is from his extra description.
The original text describes like "터키, 이집트 등은 우뇌 우세 지역이며 Turkey, Egypt are right-brain superior area".

The track record for psychologists who have "discovered" that their generation's prejudices about the brains of different cultures are confirmed by Teh Science is pretty poor. Just so you guys know.