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I'm right eye dominant, though, so I throw, swing, shoot, use scissors, play instruments and use a mouse right handed.
I'm not at all ambidextrous, I can't do most of those things with my other hand.
I'm of the generation that were forced to write with the right even though I was a natural lefty. I also broke my left arm when I was 2, which may have made things even more messed up. These days I: * Write with my right, my left is not quite as quick/tidy as my right * Swing/grip with my left (cricket / golf / etc) * Use my phone with my left * Mouse with my right * Cut (scissors) with my right (but we don't have an…
Yeah my body is all kinds of confused also: - Write with my left - Cricket/golf right - Tennis/squash left - Bowl/throw left - Mouse right - Drink left - Eat right (fork in left hand, knife in right) - Cut left (but usually don't bother because scissors never work) - I also kick well off both feet (although favor the left foot slightly) I'm definitely more left dominant but can usually do most things well enough with…
I was originally left-handed, but my father made me switch to my right hand because he believed being left-handed was the "hand of the devil." Now, I’ve become ambidextrous, and I instinctively choose which hand to use depending on the activity. Sometimes, when I'm trying something for the first time and I'm unsure which hand is best, I get stuck and have to go through some trial and error before it feels natural.
I lost a little faith when I saw the article referred to Neanderthals as "our ancestors"... Intrigued by the throwaway comment that we know handedness is genetically determined. Is that true? I was under the impression it was a developmental issue (identical twins with opposite orientation being one piece of evidence here).
Men are 13%, women 9% Being a twin is very high, like 17% Scandinavia is 13%, China <3%
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I'm not sure why people have started to make reversed musical instruments. I saw a video with a reversed piano, calling it "left-handed." I am a left-handed person who plays the piano and I had always thought the keyboard was laid out like an ascending scale on paper rather than having something to do with handedness - low notes on the left and high notes on the right. The motions involved in playing music are so wei…
I taught guitar for three years to groups of undergrads. I noticed that most lefties had no problem playing a right-handed guitar. However, occasionally I would have a student that just struggled mightily and things clicked when they switched to a left-handed guitar.
I lost a little faith when I saw the article referred to Neanderthals as "our ancestors"... Intrigued by the throwaway comment that we know handedness is genetically determined. Is that true? I was under the impression it was a developmental issue (identical twins with opposite orientation being one piece of evidence here).
I lose a little faith when I see people nitpick while being wrong.
I'm of the generation that were forced to write with the right even though I was a natural lefty. I also broke my left arm when I was 2, which may have made things even more messed up. These days I: * Write with my right, my left is not quite as quick/tidy as my right * Swing/grip with my left (cricket / golf / etc) * Use my phone with my left * Mouse with my right * Cut (scissors) with my right (but we don't have an…
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“ when you look at rare conditions, like Down Syndrome, epilepsy and cerebral palsy, the ratio of left- to right-handers is more like 50:50 rather than 1:10.” Is this a typo? Or are left-handed people way, way more likely to suffer from these rare diseases?
Left-handedness is unusual, but not per se pathologic. There is a running joke among neurologists that the average neurologist is a left-handed person with migraines. They aren't all, of course, but if you had chronic headaches and were left-handed, wouldn't that predispose you to pursuing a specialty where you try to figure out what's going on in brains? I majored in chemistry; it's not a huge stretch to imagine why I became an anesthesiologist. It's interesting, and it makes some intuitive sense. We tend to be more of the "analyst" personality; former engineers and accountants are not rare in anesthesia.
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I'm not sure why people have started to make reversed musical instruments. I saw a video with a reversed piano, calling it "left-handed." I am a left-handed person who plays the piano and I had always thought the keyboard was laid out like an ascending scale on paper rather than having something to do with handedness - low notes on the left and high notes on the right. The motions involved in playing music are so wei…
Piano music is mostly written by right-handers for right-handers. I'm strongly left-hand dominant. For music that's intended to be easy to play, the primary voice is almost always on the right hand. Where the music wants the most dexterity, I have the least. At the developed level where the composer doesn't give a damn about how easy it is for the musician to play, yes, both left and right-handers have to figure out…