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(Message started by: Sir Col on Dec 24^th, 2004, 2:36pm)

Title: Left, Right, or Ambidextrous?
Post by Sir Col on Dec 24^th, 2004, 2:36pm

I would like to test a long standing suspicion I have about left/right handedness and a those who would consider themselves to be mathematically minded.

My (limited) experience is that there are disproportionately more people who are [hide]left handed[/hide] that are mathematical than those who are not. I believe that around 1 in 20 people claim to be left handed, 7 in 10 claim to be right handed, and the remainder claim to be ambidextrous.

It will be interesting to see how the statistics compare among us...

Title: Re: Left, Right, or Ambidextrous?
Post by BNC on Dec 24^th, 2004, 3:20pm

I have heard about this theory... not true in my case.

Title: Re: Left, Right, or Ambidextrous?
Post by John_Gaughan on Dec 24^th, 2004, 9:47pm

I think any statistics gained by this poll will be skewed. This forum attracts mainly "math" people.

Title: Re: Left, Right, or Ambidextrous?
Post by EZ_Lonny on Dec 27^th, 2004, 3:23am

I am a stranger concerning this item.

I am right handed, but I am left legged.

Is there any theory to this?

To my knowledge a person is both left handed / legged or right handed / legged.

Title: Re: Left, Right, or Ambidextrous?
Post by towr on Dec 27^th, 2004, 5:47am

on 12/27/04 at 03:23:59, EZ_Lonny wrote:

To my knowledge a person is both left handed / legged or right handed / legged.

That's the case in about 80% of the population, and they're also right/left-eyed/eared/etc
But in the other 20% any combination is possible.

Title: Re: Left, Right, or Ambidextrous?
Post by Noke Lieu on Feb 1^st, 2005, 10:11pm

Not particularly related, but almost.

I have noticed an odd trend with martial arts...
In the most of the judo clubs that I've trained with, the majority of judoka have been scientists, mathematicians, engineers etc.
On the other hand, the majority of karate clubs I have known have been mostly populated by historians, theologans, linguists.

Is this a co-incidence? Probably. But what if they'd all been left handed judoka.... ([hide]they weren't[/hide]) :o