Just curious, Are you lefty or righty...

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Oh...wait. Are we talking politics or what hand we write with?

Seesch, is everything politics with you?

Besides I think we all know the results of the political lefty-righty poll already.

Originally Posted by RStar

I like the "I don't know" option! How could you not know???

That's just a subtle dig at ambidextrous crowd. Most people with ambidextrous skills are still left or right handed but have worked to train their non-dominant hand (LashMom for example). Even people who are born ambidextrous (and that's extremely rare) still favor one hand over the other.


Funny story about Left vs right...
As a college freshman I took Psych-101. One of the exciting parts of that class was the opportunity of being forced to volunteer for a grad student experiment. I was late to sign-up so all the fun electroshock experiments were full but there was one "study" looking for a few lefties so I went with that. It turned out they were looking to figure out how many lefties had been forcefully subjugated by the evil righty education/religion cabal. The looked at hundreds of righties and just a few lefties (as a control of sorts) to determine their natural handedness. After I finished all the tests they were frankly shocked. According to their data I was rather unique and it had them all a twitter. I was a lefty who was in fact a natural righty. A rare thing to be sure... and in this case not even close to being true.

The first test they had was a strength test: Squeeze the gauge and see how much force you generate with your left vs right hand. The problem for me was that I had just come from fencing practice (if you are tall and a lefty, you should really should try fencing!) so my left hand was pretty much jelly. In the test my right easily won the day.

Next up was a dexterity test. How many times in 60 Seconds can you press a button with your left hand VS your right hand. Are there any old school video game players out there? I was the Asteroids champ for my college (top score over 5 Million). For those not familiar with the game, your left hand controls the Left and right buttons while the right controls the thrust and fire button. You press the "fire" button a lot in that game and the faster the better. I was a finely tuned asteroids playing machine. I could group fire lines tighter than scrooges purse strings. So in this test my right once again took home the prize.

I had quite a time convincing them I really was not the missing-link of lefty vs righties.