I think that "it's a myth" is the myth. Ultimately, different areas of the brain do have different functions and some people are stronger in some areas and some people are stronger in others. That's not really something anyone can argue with. Maybe the divide isn't strictly symmetrical left and right, sure, but that doesn't debunk the theory, it simply gives it more accuracy. Just because the theory isn't completely right, doesn't mean that it is completely wrong.
You will also notice that I didn't say anything about the left being logical and the right being creative in the original post (I guess the image implies it but hey, it's a cool image
). That is clearly an over simplification, but again, I imagine is not completely wrong either.
I guess the proof of the pudding is in the eating, some people see the dancer spinning clockwise, some people see the dancer spinning anti-clockwise. You can break the .gif image apart into it's constituent frames and see that it is indeed a single loop, an optical illusion. She does not change direction:
Online GIF Frame Viewer - Extract Frames from an Animated GIF Image - GIF Explode
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Originally Posted by Teen Idle
For a "hack" of this, cover the girls body and only leave her foot visible. You will see that you can change the directions as the stimuli has been reduced. So unless, for me, it's on a loop every 5 seconds... I'd say the myth is a myth.
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That was my technique too
That was the only way I as able to see her spinning anti-clockwise, by covering up all but her lower legs and then slowly revealing the rest.
Thanks everyone for responding to the thread. It's really interesting to see that indeed it does seem to be that more people here are 'right brainers'.