For the left handed....
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Bubble said:Vanni Fucci said:Bubble said:
Yeah...we get that...and we forgive you...
where is Eighth Circle, Seventh Bolgia?
Hell
"...I think we should all become Mensa members, and drive out the righties with our quirkiness..." -- VANNI
LOL !!!
Heh heh...
I'm holdin' "quirky" right here.
Hooo boy !!!
LOL !!
LOL !!!
Heh heh...
I'm holdin' "quirky" right here.
Hooo boy !!!
LOL !!
I'm left-handed (see my avatar). Played baseball and softball for many years in the sandlots of Brooklyn and my nickname to this day is "Lefty".
gopher said:
The saddest day in my 'Kiddom' was when my dad bought me a baseball glove for the wrong hand. That was nearly 60 years ago and I still haven't forgotten. I wonder if us 'lefties' can hold a grudge longer than 'righties'?
RE: For the left handed..
My Dad was an artist and let me develop whichever way worked best. In my case, I slanted the paper NE to SW and luckily, no misguided teacher every tried to change me.
When I got to University, the Right-Hand-Only desks caused me all kinds of discomfort. So much for enlightened higher education.
My Dad was an artist and let me develop whichever way worked best. In my case, I slanted the paper NE to SW and luckily, no misguided teacher every tried to change me.
When I got to University, the Right-Hand-Only desks caused me all kinds of discomfort. So much for enlightened higher education.
RE: For the left handed..
Nope, skipped a generation. My younger son is an artist. His elder brother is (sigh) an engineer.
Nope, skipped a generation. My younger son is an artist. His elder brother is (sigh) an engineer.
Wetcoast40 said:
The ex is a leftie, sadest day for him was when his car was broke into and his ball glove stolen, what were the chances a leftie got ahold of it??
Sad yet funny.
Re: RE: For the left handed..
There are lots of us "cross-over" types. Lefthandedness isn't predictable or standard. I write, throw and kick lefthanded. I swing a golf club or baseball bat and operate a mouse righthanded. The one thing common with all of us lefties is that we are more ambidexterous than others simply because we have to be. It is a righthanded world.
Andygal said:
There are lots of us "cross-over" types. Lefthandedness isn't predictable or standard. I write, throw and kick lefthanded. I swing a golf club or baseball bat and operate a mouse righthanded. The one thing common with all of us lefties is that we are more ambidexterous than others simply because we have to be. It is a righthanded world.
More lefty news
Left-handed people may be better equipped for close range mortal combat than those who rely on their right hands, according to researchers.
Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond of the University of Montpellier in France examined the number of left-handed people in unindustrialised cultures as well as the homicide levels within each culture.
They discovered a correlation between levels of violence and the proportion of the left-handed population – the more violent a culture, the higher the relative proportion of left-handers. The cause for this, the researchers suggest, is that left-handers are more likely to survive hand-to-hand combat.
The news could provide comfort for those who routinely struggle with right-handed scissors and can-openers, but some experts are unconvinced by the link.
Left-handed people are more prone to some health problems, suggesting the trait ought to disappear naturally over many generations through natural selection. But left-handers continue to make up a small proportion of the human population, hinting there could also be some evolutionary advantage to being left-handed.
And the ratio of left-handers to right-handers is higher in successful sportspeople than it is in the general population, suggesting there is definite advantage to favouring the left hand or foot in competitive games, such as tennis.
Homicidal tendencies
"Because of the advantage in sports we thought there could be a similar advantage in fights," Faurie told New Scientist. The theory is that right-handed competitors are less accustomed to facing left-handers, making them a more difficult proposition.
Faurie and Raymond studied several unindustrialised societies with varying rates of homicide, using their own fieldwork and ethnographic literature. They excluded industrialised cultures due to a lack of data and because, they argue, use of firearms is unaffected by handedness.
At one end of the scale, their sample included the Dioula of Burkina Faso, where just 3.4% of the population is left-handed and there are only 0.013 murders per 1000 inhabitants each year. At the other end of their sample spectrum, they studied records of the Eipo of Indonesia, where 27% of the population is left-handed and the homicide rate is considerably greater - three murders per 1000 people each year.
The strong correlation between the proportion of left-handers and the number of homicides in each culture suggests that left-handers are more likely to survive a fight, they say. "It could be one of the reasons left-handedness has survived," Faurie says. "Though there may be other reasons too."
Brain differences
Daniel Nettle, an expert in human evolutionary history at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, is intrigued. "The results quite surprised me," he says. "But I can't think of any reason why they might be an artefact [of the study design], so it looks like an interesting finding."
However, Chris McManus at University College London, who has researched handedness, is more sceptical about the link. "I'm far from convinced," he told New Scientist. "I don't think it is anything as simple as this."
McManus says the sample data is too small provide firm evidence of a connection between handedness and fighting prowess and says data from western societies should also have been included.
He believes the success of left-handers may be largely due to differences in the brain. "It may be that sometimes their brains assemble themselves in combinations that work better for certain tasks," he says.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (DOI: 10.1098/rspb/2004/2926)
Stay calm everyone :? Do as I say and no one will get hurt :? I'm left handed :twisted:
Left-handed people may be better equipped for close range mortal combat than those who rely on their right hands, according to researchers.
Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond of the University of Montpellier in France examined the number of left-handed people in unindustrialised cultures as well as the homicide levels within each culture.
They discovered a correlation between levels of violence and the proportion of the left-handed population – the more violent a culture, the higher the relative proportion of left-handers. The cause for this, the researchers suggest, is that left-handers are more likely to survive hand-to-hand combat.
The news could provide comfort for those who routinely struggle with right-handed scissors and can-openers, but some experts are unconvinced by the link.
Left-handed people are more prone to some health problems, suggesting the trait ought to disappear naturally over many generations through natural selection. But left-handers continue to make up a small proportion of the human population, hinting there could also be some evolutionary advantage to being left-handed.
And the ratio of left-handers to right-handers is higher in successful sportspeople than it is in the general population, suggesting there is definite advantage to favouring the left hand or foot in competitive games, such as tennis.
Homicidal tendencies
"Because of the advantage in sports we thought there could be a similar advantage in fights," Faurie told New Scientist. The theory is that right-handed competitors are less accustomed to facing left-handers, making them a more difficult proposition.
Faurie and Raymond studied several unindustrialised societies with varying rates of homicide, using their own fieldwork and ethnographic literature. They excluded industrialised cultures due to a lack of data and because, they argue, use of firearms is unaffected by handedness.
At one end of the scale, their sample included the Dioula of Burkina Faso, where just 3.4% of the population is left-handed and there are only 0.013 murders per 1000 inhabitants each year. At the other end of their sample spectrum, they studied records of the Eipo of Indonesia, where 27% of the population is left-handed and the homicide rate is considerably greater - three murders per 1000 people each year.
The strong correlation between the proportion of left-handers and the number of homicides in each culture suggests that left-handers are more likely to survive a fight, they say. "It could be one of the reasons left-handedness has survived," Faurie says. "Though there may be other reasons too."
Brain differences
Daniel Nettle, an expert in human evolutionary history at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, is intrigued. "The results quite surprised me," he says. "But I can't think of any reason why they might be an artefact [of the study design], so it looks like an interesting finding."
However, Chris McManus at University College London, who has researched handedness, is more sceptical about the link. "I'm far from convinced," he told New Scientist. "I don't think it is anything as simple as this."
McManus says the sample data is too small provide firm evidence of a connection between handedness and fighting prowess and says data from western societies should also have been included.
He believes the success of left-handers may be largely due to differences in the brain. "It may be that sometimes their brains assemble themselves in combinations that work better for certain tasks," he says.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (DOI: 10.1098/rspb/2004/2926)
Stay calm everyone :? Do as I say and no one will get hurt :? I'm left handed :twisted: