Right Brain/Left Brain

February 22, 2011 5:59 PM

Take the quiz. Being creative or artistic doesn’t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world. Creative people use the RIGHT side of their brains more than the LEFT. Take the test and find out if your brain is RIGHT for a creative career.
posted by Short Attention Sp (26 comments total)

This appears to be MarketingFilter, not MetaFilter.
posted by anigbrowl at 6:03 PM on February 22, 2011

I can't believe my thetan levels are so low.
posted by Flashman at 6:07 PM on February 22, 2011

Is this a quiz to get into an Art Institute School that advertises on my TV programs no less than 8 times per night?!? ON METAFILTER!?!? GRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRAAAAARRRRAAAARRRR!
posted by Mister Fabulous at 6:07 PM on February 22, 2011

The Art Institutes? Don't they get enough ad time on Metafilter via the DECK ads?

And as far as actual assessment, this ranks below "draw this turtle."
posted by Sys Rq at 6:08 PM on February 22, 2011

what the hell, man.
posted by boo_radley at 6:09 PM on February 22, 2011

I got 50% Right, 50% Left.

I think I'll study Interpretive Dance Law.
posted by lekvar at 6:10 PM on February 22, 2011 [2 favorites]

Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being:

Left Brain Right Brain
51% 49%

Shocking.

I swear to Christ, either I (and probably most of the people on Metafilter) have the most overdeveloped corpus callosum of anyone I know... or the nature of these "typecasting" tests means that anyone who's not saddled with weird hangups and mental blocks pretty much falls dead-even in the middle.
posted by hincandenza at 6:10 PM on February 22, 2011

I often prefer to have visual instructions with examples. I couldn't finish the quiz.
posted by vidur at 6:11 PM on February 22, 2011 [1 favorite]

I got 54% right / 46% left, so I feel nicely balanced. Some of the questions seem loaded toward an unspecified philosophy.
posted by localroger at 6:11 PM on February 22, 2011

Which part of my brain draws the turtle, which part draws the pirate?
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:12 PM on February 22, 2011

I got bored after about 8 questions. Does that make me no-brained?

Wait, maybe that sounds right
posted by auto-correct at 6:13 PM on February 22, 2011

My HEAD is SPINNING right now. Can you GUESS whether it's spinning to the RIGHT or to the LEFT?

Also: fuck Paul Broca, man. You get a bit of the brain named after you and then all hell breaks loose.
posted by maudlin at 6:13 PM on February 22, 2011

Which part of my brain draws the turtle, which part draws the pirate?

I'm not sure, but I know which part of my brain draws the naughty pictures.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 6:13 PM on February 22, 2011

I organize things to show relation.

Often
Some
Occasionally
Rarely

I have pooped out better-worded questions than this.
posted by phunniemee at 6:16 PM on February 22, 2011

This is ...suspiciously markety and I've heard nothing but bad things about this school.

On the other hand, the premise is totally right, draughsmanship is a physical skill, mostly hand-eye coordination, creativity, that horrible slippery word, doesn't really enter into it, not when you're learning the basics. Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is a classic, dependent art instruction manual.
posted by The Whelk at 6:16 PM on February 22, 2011

36% left, 64% right, I think I was unconsciously gaming it for something like that.
posted by Navelgazer at 6:17 PM on February 22, 2011

And this is a terrible quiz. There is some interesting work being dne tracking eye movements of people who have had life drawing training drawing something bs. Someone without training- untrained people would focus on tiny details while the trained would be constantly going around the whole object and it struck me how much of my training was about doing that, seeing the thing as a whole and measuring aspect A to aspect B to aspect G.
posted by The Whelk at 6:19 PM on February 22, 2011

Oooh, maybe before this thread gets nuked from orbit (it's the only way to be sure), I can point out that the right side of my brain is actually literally bigger than the left. I have proof from MRIs!

I maintain that this is why I can't do math beyond tipping and balancing my checkbook.
posted by sonika at 6:19 PM on February 22, 2011

Right brain 90%: "Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. "

Hell what Spock the shit is this McVulcanson?
posted by iconomy at 6:20 PM on February 22, 2011

I agree, this is dumb as hell. That being said, I find the results pretty spot on, in a Rob Brezny horoscope kinda way.
posted by georg_cantor at 6:21 PM on February 22, 2011

50% left brained, 51% right brained.

Wait, what?
posted by you're a kitty! at 6:21 PM on February 22, 2011

And honestly a good 50% of it is just getting used to holding a pencil for 3 hours a day and absorbing how it works. I had to spend an hour filling in boxes jujutsu right to express subtle gradation and shading or making lines with a set number of strokes. My penmanship is AMAZING as a result.
posted by The Whelk at 6:21 PM on February 22, 2011

I got bored midway through and came back here to post.
posted by Lord_Pall at 6:23 PM on February 22, 2011

Internet quizzes regularly tell the men in my family that they should be Forest Rangers. After three or four previous incidents its starting to look like I need to look into this.
posted by jnnla at 6:24 PM on February 22, 2011

55. Are you too lazy to offer appropriate answers in a multiple choice test?

A. Occasionally
B. Absosmurfly
C. Oh, HI PANTS!
D. Cheeeeeeeeeeese.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 6:25 PM on February 22, 2011 [4 favorites]

29% Left 71% Rig...LET'S GO RIDE OUR SQUIRRELS!
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 6:26 PM on February 22, 2011 [1 favorite]