Do you part your hair the way Superman does or on the right as Clark prefers?
In recent years a pseudoscience non-verbal indicator has emerged around the theory that left-partedness signals leadership potential, while parting on the right suggests something a little off-kilter.
"It's difficult for right-parters to be leaders," says John Walter, a 49-year-old systems engineer at New York's Marymount Manhattan College. Walter is credited with creating the theory three decades ago after he discovered only a few U.S. presidents parted their hair on the right.
According to the theory, left-parters attract attention to the left side of their of their face, which conveys left-brain functions like logic (as Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo do), while right-parters come across as creative but also mysterious. Hair-part aficionados are abuzz over whether right-parter John McCain stands a chance of winning the 2008 presidential race.
Source: FORTUNE May 5, 2008
