Are People Really Left-Brained or Right-Brained?
SciShow explains how some great, Nobel-winning research into the human brain turned into a meme of misunderstanding that lasted for decades. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Messages from...
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There are plenty of personality tests out there that claim to tell you which side of your brain controls how you think, what you’re good at … basically, who you are. They might say that you’re a creative right-brainer, doomed to perform poorly in math and science. Guess you better give up on getting into MIT! Or they might tell you you’re a logical left-brainer, a regular Mr. Spock - terrible at the arts so, so much for Juilliard. But, you may have noticed that there are more than just two types of people in the world … and they’re not all either scientists or artists. So there has to be some flaw in that whole left-brain/right-brain thing. Even if you never bought into the myth, your high school textbooks probably taught you that the right half o...
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There are plenty of personality tests out there that claim to tell you which side of your brain controls how you think, what you’re good at … basically, who you are. They might say that you’re a creative right-brainer, doomed to perform poorly in math and science. Guess you better give up on getting into MIT! Or they might tell you you’re a logical left-brainer, a regular Mr. Spock - terrible at the arts so, so much for Juilliard. But, you may have noticed that there are more than just two types of people in the world … and they’re not all either scientists or artists. So there has to be some flaw in that whole left-brain/right-brain thing. Even if you never bought into the myth, your high school textbooks probably taught you that the right half o...
