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Why is the population right-hand dominant?
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^^ that is also a good question. i know i felt comfortable beginning to write with my left hand long ago, but i was a "follower" and noticed everyone else writing with their right, so i went with my right hand instead. i favor my left foot for many things, and i still use my left hand more in certain situations. i pee with my left, but i jack off with my right. anybody else do this?
also, to the guys that may have taken offense to my scientific comment, i was just stating fact. i stated statisitics, and if you are healthy, and your family is, then you are on the high end of the scale, remember that highs and lows make an average, and you are the highs. there are still many unanswered questions as to why this is so. i heard this first hand from a geneticist......who was left handed by they way, so dont think you are being pushed around again by this "right handed society". your dumb ass teacher that unfarily gave you problems about your trait, or the hate script in the bible is not representative of the entire population.
and about the problems with the spiral notebooks always giving a problem.....well one of my friends who was left handed had a solution. just like the right handers right on the "front" side of the page most of the time, he wrote on the back of the page. therefore the spiral was never in his way. and if he used the "back" of the page (what used to be the front) he just flipped the book upside down. its clever but not hard to figure out...why not try it?
also, to the guys that may have taken offense to my scientific comment, i was just stating fact. i stated statisitics, and if you are healthy, and your family is, then you are on the high end of the scale, remember that highs and lows make an average, and you are the highs. there are still many unanswered questions as to why this is so. i heard this first hand from a geneticist......who was left handed by they way, so dont think you are being pushed around again by this "right handed society". your dumb ass teacher that unfarily gave you problems about your trait, or the hate script in the bible is not representative of the entire population.
and about the problems with the spiral notebooks always giving a problem.....well one of my friends who was left handed had a solution. just like the right handers right on the "front" side of the page most of the time, he wrote on the back of the page. therefore the spiral was never in his way. and if he used the "back" of the page (what used to be the front) he just flipped the book upside down. its clever but not hard to figure out...why not try it?
Kurn
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I've heard that the population as a whole is 90/10: Right/Left.
Adding Left to Ambi- and we're quite a remarkable variation from the Normal Curve.
Assuming my old right/left data is still correct.
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I started life as a left handed person. In grade school, I was forced to switch to right hand. It was not easy but I did it. Getting wrapped on the knuckles with a wooden ruler, helped.
Then when I discovered what to do with an erection, the right hand was used in the first exploration, the rest as they say is history.
When doing carpentry or playing golf, I can use either hand. Being ambidextrous has its advantage; if I ever break one hand, I will just switch.
Never believed any of the crap that was associated with left/right handers ever.
I did win quite a few bar bets, such as "bet you can't fold this with your left, or your right hand....." and so on.
Then when I discovered what to do with an erection, the right hand was used in the first exploration, the rest as they say is history.
When doing carpentry or playing golf, I can use either hand. Being ambidextrous has its advantage; if I ever break one hand, I will just switch.
Never believed any of the crap that was associated with left/right handers ever.
I did win quite a few bar bets, such as "bet you can't fold this with your left, or your right hand....." and so on.
My father was left-handed, but they forced him in school (early 20th C.) to change.
I'm left handed, but by the mid-1950's when I started school, they'd stopped doing that.
The dominant side of the brain the the one opposite to the hand you favor, but it makes no difference in intellectual abilitiy, motor skills, etc.
I'm left handed, but by the mid-1950's when I started school, they'd stopped doing that.
The dominant side of the brain the the one opposite to the hand you favor, but it makes no difference in intellectual abilitiy, motor skills, etc.
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Both my hands are dominant, but in different tasks.
All sport type activities are left handed (throwing a ball, golfing, hockey, etc.. although with kicking, my right foot is stronger).
Writing is done with my right hand, as is eating.
I use a mix... just depends what's more comfortable.
After thinking about it, when more strength is needed, my left hand is used... and where more precise movements are needed, my right hand is used.
All sport type activities are left handed (throwing a ball, golfing, hockey, etc.. although with kicking, my right foot is stronger).
Writing is done with my right hand, as is eating.
I use a mix... just depends what's more comfortable.
After thinking about it, when more strength is needed, my left hand is used... and where more precise movements are needed, my right hand is used.
when i was in the 2nd grade my teacher forced me to switch to my right hand. after about 6 mths of that my mom noticed i was writing with the wrong hand. she beeeeatch slapped that teacher, cuz my mom is a doctor, and educated her how lefthanded is okay and making kids switch is bad. look up stuttering!!!!...anyway...love my mommy for setting the teach straight.
^^ i hope your mom bitch slapped that teacher really hard, cause that is wrong. its amazing how uneducated teachers out there can cause the most damage. teachers *should* be smart about these things.
right handed, right footed. although while wielding two handed items (cricket/baseball bats, swords etc) i'm left..handed? no idea how it came about, just always felt natural to favour left side while using both hands
evil_danger
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I'm pretty much left sided, although my right ear is slighty more dominant, and I eat with my knife and fork how a right handed person eats as I was forced to eat "properly" in school.
Being left handed does have some advantages in sports, not only that were more visual and our brain actually works slightly quicker due to the higher number of conections between the two sides of the brain.
I notice I cant talk quickly though, I get tongue tied quickly which is something to do with being left handed, as its the left side of the brain responsible for language and speach and thats the side that right handed people use more.
I find it funny that i'm supposed to have a shorter life span because of my 'afliction' because I cant use tools properly.
Being left handed must have an advantage in the uk with driving as I have more control over the gear stick. I dunno, its something that doesn't really matter in todays world, us left handed people cope quite well, I always find it funny that right handed people dont know how easy they have it having everything designed to suit them.
Being left handed does have some advantages in sports, not only that were more visual and our brain actually works slightly quicker due to the higher number of conections between the two sides of the brain.
I notice I cant talk quickly though, I get tongue tied quickly which is something to do with being left handed, as its the left side of the brain responsible for language and speach and thats the side that right handed people use more.
I find it funny that i'm supposed to have a shorter life span because of my 'afliction' because I cant use tools properly.
Being left handed must have an advantage in the uk with driving as I have more control over the gear stick. I dunno, its something that doesn't really matter in todays world, us left handed people cope quite well, I always find it funny that right handed people dont know how easy they have it having everything designed to suit them.
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I'm currently majoring in neuroscience, so I might be able to tell you...in about six years.
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Yes I respect neuroscience.
And I will wait the six years to see what you might have to say.
But until them I am appalled that so much misinformation on this
subject abounds. It really is important, and it may be abundantly
simple.
Historically, when people started to see the difference, it was inherent taht so many right handed meant that any one who was dominant with the left hand was wrong. The old right and wrong (left or left out) is pathetic. When I first studies French, I was not the least bit amused to find that right handed meant law abiding, and left handed meant theivery.
At age eight I had a third grade teacher who really believed that because I was left handed that I was a child of the devil. And screeching at me that nice bit of bad news she took a metal edge and prodeced to beat my left hand into a bloody pulp. This went on for weeks until I relented and became a good little boy, and one of God's children, which she announced proudly to my third grade class.
What this led to was horrendous. I in a matter of days began a routine of stammering and stuttering which would continue until I was 22 years old. I call it the lost fourteen years. She also severed the tendons in the third and fourth fingers of my left hand which made it impossible for me to write left handed. I also become anxious and quite depressed. Hating school became my mantra. I also hated her. At the slightest whim I was locked in her closed for hours afraid of the dark, and terrified that she would forget me and I will have no way to escape and go home on the bus.
Well meaning people, and I am an educator, and many educators try to fix children, when there is nothing wrong to begin with. Once a label is placed on a child, it is almost impossible, even over a life time to remove the label. I mercifully had a teacher in graduate school who was common sense learned and compassionate. He set me on a path to recovery from stuttering, anxiety and depression. He had me write left handed again. Even now, I tear up how quickly I began to feel better. Someone I respected and who had authority over my young life set me free. In a few days the stuttering stopped. Overnight the anxiety and depression began to life.
What he understood is that I suffered from an issue of mixed dominance. I was left footed, left eyed, and then forced to be right handed. How can you tell if your child is left or right eyed? What is the dominant eye. It is unbelievably simple. Take a piece of copier paper and role a funnel of paper with an opening about one inch circular. Have the child hold the paper with the funner covering the face, and look at you and focus. Then identify the eye that is looking at you through the hole. That is the dominant eye.
Ideally, a person has all right or all left dominance. When a child has mixed dominance, there is often a series of emotional problems that mark his or her life. My third grade teacher was a child abuser in her way of not coping with my left handedness. Today I have terrible scars over both those knuckles, and I suffer terrible arthritic pain and trigger finger with that hand, a constant reminder of people who wanted me to write with another hand.
Find what the child wants and needs, and then with compassion and understanding help him or her to develop as they are naturally made. Living in a right handed world is sometimes so irritating that I want to scream. Opening a right handed door with a load of groceries, is outrageous. Cars with righthanded gear shifts, and right footed accelerators, and left foot clutches. Refrigerators that open in the opposite direction. Many times my knuckles still show fresh scars as I continue to adapt to what is intended for only right handers.
Shep+
And I will wait the six years to see what you might have to say.
But until them I am appalled that so much misinformation on this
subject abounds. It really is important, and it may be abundantly
simple.
Historically, when people started to see the difference, it was inherent taht so many right handed meant that any one who was dominant with the left hand was wrong. The old right and wrong (left or left out) is pathetic. When I first studies French, I was not the least bit amused to find that right handed meant law abiding, and left handed meant theivery.
At age eight I had a third grade teacher who really believed that because I was left handed that I was a child of the devil. And screeching at me that nice bit of bad news she took a metal edge and prodeced to beat my left hand into a bloody pulp. This went on for weeks until I relented and became a good little boy, and one of God's children, which she announced proudly to my third grade class.
What this led to was horrendous. I in a matter of days began a routine of stammering and stuttering which would continue until I was 22 years old. I call it the lost fourteen years. She also severed the tendons in the third and fourth fingers of my left hand which made it impossible for me to write left handed. I also become anxious and quite depressed. Hating school became my mantra. I also hated her. At the slightest whim I was locked in her closed for hours afraid of the dark, and terrified that she would forget me and I will have no way to escape and go home on the bus.
Well meaning people, and I am an educator, and many educators try to fix children, when there is nothing wrong to begin with. Once a label is placed on a child, it is almost impossible, even over a life time to remove the label. I mercifully had a teacher in graduate school who was common sense learned and compassionate. He set me on a path to recovery from stuttering, anxiety and depression. He had me write left handed again. Even now, I tear up how quickly I began to feel better. Someone I respected and who had authority over my young life set me free. In a few days the stuttering stopped. Overnight the anxiety and depression began to life.
What he understood is that I suffered from an issue of mixed dominance. I was left footed, left eyed, and then forced to be right handed. How can you tell if your child is left or right eyed? What is the dominant eye. It is unbelievably simple. Take a piece of copier paper and role a funnel of paper with an opening about one inch circular. Have the child hold the paper with the funner covering the face, and look at you and focus. Then identify the eye that is looking at you through the hole. That is the dominant eye.
Ideally, a person has all right or all left dominance. When a child has mixed dominance, there is often a series of emotional problems that mark his or her life. My third grade teacher was a child abuser in her way of not coping with my left handedness. Today I have terrible scars over both those knuckles, and I suffer terrible arthritic pain and trigger finger with that hand, a constant reminder of people who wanted me to write with another hand.
Find what the child wants and needs, and then with compassion and understanding help him or her to develop as they are naturally made. Living in a right handed world is sometimes so irritating that I want to scream. Opening a right handed door with a load of groceries, is outrageous. Cars with righthanded gear shifts, and right footed accelerators, and left foot clutches. Refrigerators that open in the opposite direction. Many times my knuckles still show fresh scars as I continue to adapt to what is intended for only right handers.
Shep+
The_Reaper
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That's my belief.
I didn't see anyone mention this, but there were numerous attempts by right-handed people to "fix" left-handed people throughout the ages, because of the description quoted above.
A friend of mine, well former friend who is about 20, was actually assaulted by his grandmother has a child because of his being left handed. Like they used to do, she bound his hand and pretty much forced him to learn to write with his right hand.
Fortunately for me, I never had to undergo anything like that...Yes, I am left-handed, but I vary in my tasks between what hand I use.
The computer mouse for example, feels better in my right hand...And I'm also a fairly good writer with my right, but it takes me twice as long to write legibly.
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Circe Infuria
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I voted that I was dominant right-handed (because for the most part I am) but I consider myself ambidextrous.
When I surf the internet on my laptop, I'm constantly using my left hand to maneuver the mouse pad. When I drive one handed, it's the left hand on the wheel. When I hold the reins of my horse bridle with one hand, it's always my left. My left hand has now become my "strength" hand.
There are some things that are designated right or left handed, and sometimes I can switch between the two easily.
When I write on a chalk board, I can actually write better with my left than my right, so most times I use left.
Finally, I actually play darts with both hands, but I discovered I throw better with my left!
Now, as for your question as to why so much right handers exist?
I really don't know.
Sorry to ramble.
When I surf the internet on my laptop, I'm constantly using my left hand to maneuver the mouse pad. When I drive one handed, it's the left hand on the wheel. When I hold the reins of my horse bridle with one hand, it's always my left. My left hand has now become my "strength" hand.
There are some things that are designated right or left handed, and sometimes I can switch between the two easily.
When I write on a chalk board, I can actually write better with my left than my right, so most times I use left.
Finally, I actually play darts with both hands, but I discovered I throw better with my left!
Now, as for your question as to why so much right handers exist?
I really don't know.
Sorry to ramble.
An old biology teacher once told me that the left-handed gene is actually dominant rather than recessive, but I never did come across any research that shed any light on why there are more right-handed people than left-handed people. So far, I've only heard outlandish ideas...