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How many lefties out there have experienced any sort of bias against their left-handedness?
The two people in my high school class who were voted 'worst handwriting' were forced by their parents to switch from writing left-handed to right-handed. It was painful to watch the girl write; she clamped the pencil between her thumb and index finger.
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:Hand up:
Writing from left to right with the left hand is delicate with an ink pen: the hand is going above the text just written, when the ink isn't dry enough. However, forcing a left-handed child to use his/her right hand instead seems barbaric to me.
Ther are many bias against left handed people: think to all the tools designed for right handed people, without mentionning keyboards and mouses.
It's perhaps the reason why left-handed people have an higher average IQ, because they have to work harder to adapt. It's also probably the reason why they have a shorter life expectancy, they have more accidents in unadapted environments.
these assertations come from controversial studies, I know. But since when trolling isn't allowed? 
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K(arl) wrote:
forcing a left-handed child to use his/her right hand instead seems barbaric to me
Indeed. In the girl's case, I think it was her father who forced her into it. He was domineering and overbearing. She didn't move out of her parents' house until he died, even though she was a practicing attorney and made more money than her parents combined. In the boy's case, I think it stemmed from simple superstition and ignorance on his parents' part.
K(arl) wrote:
these assertations come from controversial studies
Maybe so. I had an eye doctor who told me once that left-handed myopic (near-sighted) people were going to take over the world. The fact that we were both left-handed and myopic had nothing to do with it, of course  .
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In my limited experience, it seems to take a *lot* more practice for left-handed people to get to where they can write legibly. IMHO, they should be taught to type as early as possible.
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That's probably because they are taught to write by right-handed people, who generally aren't going to be able to completely handle the differences between left and right writing techniques.
Shog9 wrote:
IMHO, they should be taught to type as early as possible
Hmm. Doesn't that sort of evade the problem? It says "We can't deal with 13% of the population properly, so just have them type everything."
In your defense, with computers nearly ubiquitous in homes and schools, kids do a substantial amount of writing at the keyboard anyway.
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Speaking of watching the teachers...
I draft - meaning the old way of doing 'design' work like in archtichture - like a left-handed person even though I am right-handed, because my high school drafting teacher was left-handed. So I set up the table and hold the stencils and guides like a lefty but the pencils and pens are in my right hand.
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Your case reminds me my terrible childhood.
I am a leftty and my handwriting is bad. thats why i never writes when i can type.
but some text is writting from right to left, example is the arabic and chinese...( morden chinese is left to right anyway)
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I think the hand you write with tends to correlate with the hand you use for precision tasks, while you use the other for strength tasks. This works in my case (I write left-handed). If I have to exert a lot of effort (example: opening a jar with a stuck lid), I do it with my right hand. I usually turn door knobs and open doors with my right hand.
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Is it possible to be naturally ambidextrous, or is that a skill that must be learned? In other words, are some people born ambidextrous (like people are born left or right handed), or is it purely an acquired trait?
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yep it is!
i was born naturally ambidextrous, i can't remember exactly what happened but i went to a specialist (for some reason or another) and they told me to pick a hand and stick with it.
now my left hand is the agile one, but my right hand is the strongest.
coding is hard 
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...according to the resuts so far. IT people are the same as everybody else.
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Left half of the brain controls the right half of the body and vice versa?!? I've heard it is like this....... 
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Thomas
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Stanislaw Lem has a phantastic, marvelous and kind of almost Douglas-Adamsish SciFi story about that - "Der Flop" in German, "Peace on Earth" being the common english title.
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
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"The left brain controls logic and the right controls creativity": Is that sure?[^]
I thought that for left-handed people brain hemispheres were inverted...and they had also a convolution in addition 
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Handedness is also related to how the brain processes language. In the majority of people, all language processing is in the left hemisphere. Some people also have some processing happen in the right hemisphere. Here's the kicker, everyone who is left-handed has processing in the right hemisphere (though the converse is not true).
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Interesting indeed. Thanks for the links!
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The whole premise of this poll is flawed, with its assumption that left brain = logic and right brain = creativity (or vice versa!). This is one of those myths about our minds that sounds plausible but you can never mind any properly peer reviewed studies that give it credence.
Almost as bad as the myth that we only use 80 % of our brain capacity. If 80 % of your brain was not used you would be dead (or nearly so).
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Adrian Stanley wrote:
Almost as bad as the myth that we only use 80 % of our brain capacity. If 80 % of your brain was not used you would be dead (or nearly so).
80% of the brain (tissue) != 80% of the brain capacity
take away 20% of the cpu and it is indead dead
take away 20% of the capacity and it runs slower
merry xmas,
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I hold the pen by my right hand, but when it comes to typing I dont know which handed I am. 
-prakash
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Hi! Though I am right-handed, I work my computer with the mouse in my left-hand because it allows me to do other things with my right-hand (like write, eat, drink etc) and also saves me from overstressing my right wrist. I thought that I was the only person to do this, but have found many others that do the same thing.
The best thing is that it confuses conventional right-handed people who try to use my computer, and causes no end of swearing. 
I wonder how many others do the same thing?
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Well, I'm basically left-handed (writing, soccer, eat, drink), but when using computers, I use the mouse with my right-hand, just a mirror copy of you!
My left hand is still very useful to write some notes on blockpaper at the left side.
I suppose I started using mouse with my right hand, because first pictures of computer mice I saw in 1986-1987, exploited every mouse located on the right side on the keyboard. I started using the mouse with such hand only because I was convinced by those images.
At now, after 16 years of mousemoving, I can't use my left hand almost at all. My colleagues insist on using both the hands with the mouse, because many of them had some headaches and back and neck issues caused by wrong desk sitting.
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I do the same thing - use the mouse with the left hand. Although I switch relatively frequently... if I keep my mouse with the right hand all the time, my wrist starts to hurt. Moving the mouse over to the left was the best ergonimic move I've ever made...
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I have just switched my mouse to the left-hand side and am having no trouble using it there even though I have spent my entire life using it right-handedly! Perhaps I am ambidextrous after all.
I think it is quite a good idea to switch mouse sides now and then to ease the wrist-strain. I am going to try it for a while longer and let you know how it goes.
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