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#109903 09/01/03 05:08 PM
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I'm with oT, mostly right but hemi-semi-demi left, enough so that when faced with a new task if it seems more convenient I'll learn it with the left hand without a qualm.

Is anybody keeping score? (Indeed, have twenty people replied?) I presume there was at least one among us interested enough to start the thread!


#109904 09/01/03 08:57 PM
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I didn't start the thread, but I did ask about the numbers, so here's what I've got so far:
L     R     Ambi
3 8 2(both of whom said mostly right)

I'm not very good at math, so somebody better check it...



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#109905 09/05/03 04:04 PM
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I don't post often, but read often - so I'll tell you.
Mostly LEFT. Out of four kids, two left and two right. I have learned to do some things right-handed (knitting, making oboe reeds, mousing) but my right-handed writing and eating skills would need some hefty practice to make useful.



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#109906 09/05/03 04:15 PM
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Gee, vanguard, if you tried to knit of make reeds with your other hand, would you have to do some lefty practicing? ;-)


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Thank, vanguard, for weighing in!! Not at all to slight y'all right-handers, but these sketchy microcosmic results provided by etaoin prove my point. Whatever it was.

vanguard, you make oboe reeds?! We are not worthy.... I always felt if I ever played a wind instrument it'd have to be something reedless. I'm way too much the klutz.


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Just to make life a little more interesting. Another thang for us to compare:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030901/030901-7.html




#109909 09/05/03 07:20 PM
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thanks, Mr Hand.

The genes underlying handedness might also explain why our brains are asymmetrical. And left-handed or ambidextrous people are more likely to store language in the right side of the brain, are more prone to schizophrenia and , anecdotally, are more often creative or even geniuses.




#109910 09/05/03 07:34 PM
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talk to the hand...



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#109911 09/06/03 01:19 AM
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RIGHT HANDED

Well, ever since the whole "chopped finger" incident anyway. I used to write with my left hand occasionally and do all my calculation (on those office electronic calculators) with my left hand.


#109912 09/08/03 03:36 AM
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Another righty.


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