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Left/Right Brain test, which are you?

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Spideynw replied on Tue, May 19 2009 1:42 PM

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For instance I saw a difference between routine and liking a very structured environment.  Routine for me is something I do each day, but the environment in which I like to perform my routines needs to be very flexible.

This is why, after a couple of you have taken the test, I have decided the questions are too subjective.  I like structure a lot, in that I like to know what the consequences will be for my actions.  But repetitive tasks get extremely boring for me as well.

At most, 5% of the population would need to stop complying to bring down the government.

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Mark B. replied on Tue, May 19 2009 1:44 PM

I am 66% right brained and 26% left brained according to that test.

Which probably goes fairly consistently with the fact that I am an INFP as well.

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ladyattis replied on Tue, May 19 2009 1:45 PM

Spideynw:
It has been my experience that most people are not rational, but intuitive, which is right brained.  If the samples are based on people choosing their own answers, rather than using observation, then I would doubt the validity of "most" samples.

That's what you don't understand, the right hemisphere of the brain doesn't censor anything that's seen in the world. That's why for example austistic children can often be accounted for having amazing memories. Some taking on savant skills in art, music, and arithmetic. As such, they're very heavily "right brained." They can't help but see the 'truth' of the world.

Spideynw:
That would be called intuition, whish is right brained.

Spideynw:
Again, intuition.

Not at all, it's simply faulty logic. People often make mistakes with logic. For example, people often make the logical fallacy denial of the antecedent. Why? Because it's not easy to see the chaining of Modus Ponens and the required proper denial (Modus Tollens) to disconnect the logical chain of two variables (P, Q). Conversely, people easily *get* the idea of Modus Ponens by comparison to Modus Tollens.

What that means is that people take a kind of broken logic based on a limited set of experiences, thus they're still using both hemispheres in all actuality to delude themselves. First, using a limited set of experiences in which the right hemisphere confirms (but there are always variations in the confirmation, as that's why you get some sense of unease if you think your logic is wrong as that's your right hemisphere telling you there's some extra data for you to consider...). Second, they utilize what they derived from the right hemisphere's confirmation of the experience to then work up a set of logic from the left hemisphere. Thus producing what is self-consistent in the limited information itself, but there is always the possibility of the left hemisphere playing fancy footwork to deny any anomolies detected by the right hemisphere.

A simple example of this would be the action of buying something. Usually, your best bet of buying something you need is based on not thinking too much on it. Why? Because your brain doesn't need to literally dwell on it for hours and hours to make the computation necessary to see if it's needed or not. If you think too much on it, guess what happens? Rationalizations. This is a trick that's also used by salespersons to get someone to buy something in the future if they cannot convince them on the spot to buy it anyways. They know from years of experience, a person who thinks about the object of purchase in question will talk themselves into it (Left Brain Activity) than not.

Similarly, this action is also very common in academia with certain fields like mathematical physics and, of course, economics (and other social sciennces). As like minded scholars will attempt to justify their positions with the most confounding and possibly undefensible, unfalisifiable propositions/hypothesises constructed (basically, logical arguments that make my first year C if statements look like simple sentences...). Thus, we get similar actions of self-delusion based on faulty logic justified by limited experiences.

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Mark B.:

I am 66% right brained and 26% left brained according to that test.

Which probably goes fairly consistently with the fact that I am an INFP as well.

What's "INFP"?

 

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ladyattis replied on Tue, May 19 2009 1:54 PM

Introvert iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

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ladyattis:

Introvert iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

Thank you ladyattis!

 

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Mark B. replied on Tue, May 19 2009 2:00 PM

INFP is one of the 16 personality types.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFP

Further links to the site of the tests are available in that wikipedia article.

INFP's are referred to either as Healer's.

Here is the site to take the Keirsey Temperment Sorter:

http://www.keirsey.com/

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Dondoolee replied on Tue, May 19 2009 2:14 PM

While these tests can be fun, most of it is pseudo-scientific pop psych.  Brain laterelization is a legit study, however the research right now is ongoing and certainly not definitive.

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ladyattis replied on Tue, May 19 2009 2:18 PM

Usually, I swing between INTP and INTJ.

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ladyattis replied on Tue, May 19 2009 2:19 PM

Dondoolee:

While these tests can be fun, most of it is pseudo-scientific pop psych.  Brain laterelization is a legit study, however the research right now is ongoing and certainly not definitive.

Pretty much. Myers-Briggs are fun tests, but I can't understand why folks spend real money on them.

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Mark B. replied on Tue, May 19 2009 2:27 PM

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Dondoolee:

While these tests can be fun, most of it is pseudo-scientific pop psych.  Brain laterelization is a legit study, however the research right now is ongoing and certainly not definitive.

Pretty much. Myers-Briggs are fun tests, but I can't understand why folks spend real money on them.

Keirsey is free and similar to Myers-Briggs.

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marquise replied on Tue, May 19 2009 6:20 PM

This was fun..

 

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I still think most libertarians are more left brained than right brained, meaning logical, whereas the rest of the population is more right brained, meaning intuitive.

Well....I see the picture turning clock wise.... the test also says that I am right brained....and I am a libertarian by reason.... Wink

Right Brain |||||||||||||||| 68%
Left Brain |||||| 30%

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My first go through was more right brain than left brain (I think 38% left, 62% right, didn't bother saving the results), but after the second & third tests, my scores are more or less the following:

Right Brain |||||||||||| 50%
Left Brain |||||||||||| 42%


I think is somewhat accurate, although I'd I remembered what personality type I was, I could probably judge better.

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marquise replied on Tue, May 19 2009 6:51 PM

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I think is somewhat accurate, although I'd I remembered what personality type I was, I could probably judge better.

Try this one....

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

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marquise:

Nitroadict:
I think is somewhat accurate, although I'd I remembered what personality type I was, I could probably judge better.

Try this one....

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Thanks for the link.


I suppose the difference in my first & second test scores for left & right brain percentage are accurate then, as my 1st & 2nd tests for personality type are INTP & INTJ, respectively.  I guess I'm just on a cusp, then :)

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Don't fall for the left=good/right=bad dichotomy. The hemispheres aren't opposite, but complementary. The left brain is prone to linear throught or ration and the right brain is needed for creativity and abstract thinking, both of which are necessary for any meaningful logic.

Also, we have to understand that logic is itself intuitive. Everyone uses it to some degree it and it is notoriously self-referring. I question the validity of logic. Paradoxically, the presumptions upon which logic and math are based are epistemologically shaky.

Some would argue that the ability to think abstractly is what separates us from the intelligent prime apes and dolphins. This ability allows us to form concepts such as 'me' and 'right' or 'wrong'. This also allows us to create situations in our minds and reason then reason through them. The actual reasoning is done more with the left brain though. In this way we can bury a seed and know it will grow into a crop that we can eat.

And like someone already said, most people are left brained. I suspect it has something to do with ythe fact that most people are right handed.

 

As long as we're talking about Meyer's Brigg's personality types, I am an INTJ, also know as 'mastermind'.

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64% left-brained/32% right-brained. Typical for a libertarian I'd assume.

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marquise replied on Wed, May 20 2009 11:25 AM

Nitroadict:
I suppose the difference in my first & second test scores for left & right brain percentage are accurate then, as my 1st & 2nd tests for personality type are INTP & INTJ, respectively.  I guess I'm just on a cusp, then :)

Hehehe....being singular is a quality..... ;)

 

 

 

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Spideynw replied on Wed, May 20 2009 12:05 PM

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And like someone already said, most people are left brained. I suspect it has something to do with ythe fact that most people are right handed.

If "left brained" is "rational", then I would have to disagree...

At most, 5% of the population would need to stop complying to bring down the government.

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Studies have shown this to be a fact. And as my post says, being left brained doesn't simply mean your rational and being right brained doesn't simply mean you're irrational. Holding a controversial opinion doesn't make you genetically superior to the masses. I'm sure you weren't always an austrolibertarian.

 

But I don't think rationality was ever the problem. The problem is intellectual cowardice. People are always looking up, and without a god or government they'd be looking up at nothing. No body wants to live for nothing. But no one wants to look down on true nature of things either, for, in their archon's shadown, the true nature of things has become dark and cold.

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