All of us have grown up being told that we're either left-brained or right-brained, based

on our various aptitudes or talents.

Sometimes we're even encouraged to make life decisions, like which college degree to pursue,

based on this metric.

What if it turned out that the whole idea of brain-sightedness turned out to be complete

hogwash?

Well, that's what we're looking at today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Left-brained, right-brained, or hair-brained.

Perhaps the most pervasive popular belief that people associate with neuroscience is the

idea that we all tend to be either left-brained or right-brained, based on traits like creativity

or analytical ability.

It's well known that certain brain functions are localized in various parts of the brain,

so it would seem to make sense that some of our individual strengths of weaknesses can

be quantified based on brain hemisphere dominance.

Quite a few companies even sell products intended to analyze your brain-sightedness, promising

a variety of personal development benefits.

What is this belief, so widely held?

Good science?

Terrible science?

Or some mixture of the two?

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