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What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)

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indiandragon wrote: post #60
coldtea wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully with some hand washing involved in between...

obviously yes, apparently general social consensus here seems it is hygienic than using paper to do the job. At-least middle class families & above have water faucet to go along with western model toilets; though the concept of using tissue paper for cleaning shit is still alien for majority here.

>obviously yes, apparently general social consensus here seems it is hygienic than using paper to do the job

Seems like "cleaning by hands" is a relic consensus from the eras of the unavailability of paper. Water I can understand.

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Post by tomkinson »

I did the test. I was 4-4-2 so basically mixed handed, but really more so I don't care about top hand on a spoon, knife or broom, so really more like 4 left, 1 right, 5 don't care. So as mixed handed as it get cause I throw a mean right handed spiral too. And boy do I relate way more with left handers, all because I prefer highly to write with my left even though if I need to my right will do.

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indiandragon wrote: post #47
EngineerBetter wrote: post #23

Eating "right-handed" has always seemed irrational to me. It dates back to medeival eating traditions when folks only had a knife - therefore, it was held in the right hand as it was the primary and only implement. Fast forward to the present day, and the fork is the primary implement. Hence, to my mind, it makes significantly more aense to hold the fork in one's dominant hand.

> Carl Sagan once hypothesized that the cultural link between left-handedness and badness arose due to the left hand’s use for hygiene purposes in nonindustrialized countries e.g In India, people eat with their right hand and clean shit with their left; both in bare hands along with water without any tools.

And never the twain shall meet!

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gabelerner wrote: post #5
roryrjb wrote: post #2

"For Southpaws themselves — the affectionate term for lefties ", yeah maybe in the US but not where I'm from. Anyway, I write left handed and hold a pool cue left handed (and also I think I'm correct in saying this: I would hold a rifle left handed), but in every other way that I can think of, I am right handed. I've always thought that was weird, I mean at least compared to others. Anyone else have similar experienc…

left: - write - pool cue - brush teeth - scissors - spoon - fork right: - throw - punch - tennis/ping pong - knife i've always seen it as left=precision, right=force for me

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