ENTJ Are you right or left brain dominate?

**DayLightSun** · 08-18-2010 01:23 AM

I took the test and I am very right brain dominate. Explaining why I don't do well with words and why school was always hard for me... And why I am intuitive and love fantasy.
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I need to work on my left side.
:9 boring.
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**IcePick** · 08-20-2010 06:36 AM

I am balanced brain. I took the opportunity over the years of my life to work on my skillsets. I somehow ended up with using both sides of the brain equally.

**RhoAlphaNuAlpha** · 08-20-2010 08:33 AM

Im making an assumption that Im slightly more right brained than left brained.
I have played music since I was 15 years old of various instruments, and also been naturally talented at art at a very young age.

However now Ive switched to a science major and am doing well, which leads me to believe I am using more left brained attributes currently.

**IcePick** · 08-20-2010 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by RhoAlphaNuAlpha

Im making an assumption that Im slightly more right brained than left brained.
I have played music since I was 15 years old of various instruments, and also been naturally talented at art at a very young age.

However now Ive switched to a science major and am doing well, which leads me to believe I am using more left brained attributes currently.

Well only one way to find out.

**RhoAlphaNuAlpha** · 08-20-2010 09:22 AM

"You responded as a right brained person to 6 questions, and you responded as a left brained person to 13 questions. According to the Hemispheric Dominance test, you use the left side or your brain the most."

Interesting!

**alanv** · 08-20-2010 10:19 AM

That website describes the attributes as if the left brain is superior in every single description. Obviously written by a left brain dominant person. When you compare the MBTI cognitive functions with this system, they don't seem to match the way I would expect. It seems as though right hemisphere dominance would match with sensors. Except for the holistic view point. And that left hemisphere would match with intuitives.

How is it that so many intuitives do so well in left hemisphere things like math and other sciences? How is it that so many sensors do so well in artistic right hemisphere activities? Maybe that is just too strict of an interpretation.

The only thing I can see that may help right hemisphere dominant people with the sciences is visualization and creativity, and also a holistic view point.

Oh yeah, I scored high on right hemisphere 14 to 5.

**RhoAlphaNuAlpha** · 08-20-2010 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by alanv

That website describes the attributes as if the left brain is superior in every single description. Obviously written by a left brain dominant person. When you compare the MBTI cognitive functions with this system, they don't seem to match the way I would expect. It seems as though right hemisphere dominance would match with sensors. Except for the holistic view point. And that left hemisphere would match with intuitives.

How is it that so many intuitives do so well in left hemisphere things like math and other sciences? How is it that so many sensors do so well in artistic right hemisphere activities? Maybe that is just too strict of an interpretation.

The only thing I can see that may help right hemisphere dominant people with the sciences is visualization and creativity, and also a holistic view point.

Oh yeah, I scored high on right hemisphere 14 to 5.

Not to derail the thread, but your avatar location is where I live, and I was there just last night.
Thought that was amusing.

**IcePick** · 08-20-2010 04:19 PM

Well from what I have read most women are left brain dominant and most men are right brain dominant. Women tend to have highly verbal and conversational skills while men tend to be less developed in that area (caveman theories). Though men do often feel they use logic a bit more than women making them believe they are left brained. People tend to believe that women are more creative, artsy, musical, use symbols/imagery more and the fact that they like decorating causing them to think they are right brain dominant. But it's actually quite the opposite so I guess what I have read holds true.

Do you know who created the first computer programming language? It was a woman and her name was Grace Hopper. The only way I see it ever being developed is through a highly left brained dominant person who posess mathematics, scientific, words, language, and logic skills. But if this is true then don't you think it's kind of strange that the math and science fields are primarily made up of men? But I guess subjects of interests play a role in this strangeness.

But many are either highly left brain or highly right brain dominant. There are very few people who are actually balanced brain. I've never actually met another dual brain person though but I'll tell you what it feels like being a dual brainer. My brain is constantly playing tug-of-war fighting each other to develop an answer or solution. A famous dual brainer is Leonardo Da Vinci, he excelled at multiple subjects because he was able to use his whole brain instead of only half of one side.