Lefty-righty

[LCHIEN]

Rod's poll is apparently only for lefties.
Are Lefties more predomiate here than in the general population?
The popular belief is that Lefties are more creative, righties more logical.

OK here's the rules:
Vote Lefty if you are a southpaw (lefty) or predominately lefty.
Vote righty if you are a righty or predominately righty.
Vote ambidextrous if you are truly amibidextrous and go both ways regularly and equally
OK, you can vote other if you are an alien with more than two main appendages or a freak of nature who somehow cannot fit the above categories. We'd like to hear your story, though and I get 50% rights to sell the story to National Enquirer.

And by the way what is the accepted rate of lefties in the general population?




Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.

[LCHIEN]

From my extensive research around the net. Verbatim, except for my emphasis.

quote:
Around ten percent of Americans are left-handed, and of those, there are twice as many lefty males as
females. Cats and parrots have general tendencies toward their left paws and claw; rats and monkeys
tend to be right-pawed. A study of ultrasound pictures of 270 fetuses (from 1 month to 9 months)
revealed that 92% sucked their right thumb while in the womb.

What does left-handedness mean, practically speaking? Medical literature reports that lefties more
accident prone, are more likely to have their fingers amputated by power-tools, suffer more wrist fractures. Lefties are more susceptible to allergies, auto-immune diseases, bed-wetting, ...

next poll: How many lefties have all their fingers?


Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.

[jethro]

Sorry to be a pig, but I couldn't resist ...

quote:Originally posted by LCHIEN

Vote ambidextrous if you ... go both ways regularly and equally

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jethro.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. Heinlein

[LCHIEN]

quote:Originally posted by jethro

Sorry to be a pig, but I couldn't resist ...

quote:Originally posted by LCHIEN

Vote ambidextrous if you ... go both ways regularly and equally

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jethro.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. Heinlein

I know. I did it on purpose to see who's really reading.
See, you were alert!


Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.

[RodKirby]

Well thanks, Loring. I WAS feeling fine!

Yes I have all my fingers and thumbs, but sounds like I better handover my car keys. Although, having driven (and been driven) for 45 years without an accident (probably a misake saying this), I'm willing to keep taking a chance.

Any other uplifting statistics?

A Professional is someone who does what they say they will do.

[mudder]

LCHEIN, better do a little more research. some of your data is inaccurate.

http://toddlerstoday.com/resources/a...s/lefthand.htm

http://jackie.freeshell.org/woh/test_stats.htm

Lefties seem more awkward because there is a conspiracy against us!
All of the righties, who want to suppress us make tools 5x more expensive for us lefties

oh yea, here is one for my mate, RodKirby

http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html


Am I delusional yet?

Mudder
(crusader for the Lefties cause)

An ounce of prevention is worth 453.59 grams of cure.

[Ryan F]

Don't apologize jethro, If you didn't post it I would have.
Heheheheh….. he said “both ways”
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Ryan Flaherty
http://home.kc.rr.com/myworkshop/Workshop.html

[Stytooner]

I'm right handed. I make stuff. I don't charge more for a left handed splitter.

Lee
http://www.leestyron.com

[mudder]

quote:Originally posted by Stytooner

I'm right handed. I make stuff. I don't charge more for a left handed splitter.

Lee
http://www.leestyron.com

Lee

Please post a Picture of your left-handed splitter.
Can you tell me the difference between a left and right-handed splitter?
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Mudder

An ounce of prevention is worth 453.59 grams of cure.

[Stytooner]

quote:Originally posted by mudder


Please post a Picture of your left-handed splitter.
Can you tell me the difference between a left and right-handed splitter?
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Mudder

An ounce of prevention is worth 453.59 grams of cure.

Now Mudder, I can't go givin out all my trade secrets.

Lee
http://www.leestyron.com

[mudder]

gotcha!

Your one of them! I knew it!

http://www.leestyron.com/html/sharkplans.html

I'll find the left-handed splitter here I'm sure of it

Mudder

An ounce of prevention is worth 453.59 grams of cure.

[JLyon]

Loring: to understand why the forum has more lefties than the general population, you'd have to know how many of the left handed respondents are actually missing their right hand, and had to change over [:0]
Sorry...
Jeff

[LCHIEN]

quote:Originally posted by JLyon

Loring: to understand why the forum has more lefties than the general population, you'd have to know how many of the left handed respondents are actually missing their right hand, and had to change over [:0]
Sorry...
Jeff

Ha, I thought of mentioning that too but didn't want to alienate 26+ percent of the forum.


Loring in Katy, TX USA
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.