Are you Right or Left Handed or Both?

[stevelam]

Hmm. I noticed today in the review of the Bluetooth Headphone Kit (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?action=expand,44393) that the reviewer said sorry to left handers as it wouldnt be as good. So I wondered how many of us are there out there (if that makes sense :lol: )

Merry Christmas :D

*EDIT* I forgot to say i'm left handed. And proud of it! :clap: :way to go: *EDIT*

[PetiteFlower]

Why do you have the choices twice?

[Darren Behan]

I write & eat left handed but play sports & instruments right handed. No idea why.

db

[Cybrid]

I write & eat left handed but play sports & instruments right handed. No idea why.

dbProlly cause no-one bought you a lefthanded accordion or table tennis paddle as a child. :devilboy:
Like an urban legend I read.
Jimi Hendrix played his guitar upside down.
As a child he bought a left handed guitar unknowingly and became used to playing it that way.

[stevelam]

Why do you have the choices twice?

That wasnt supposed to happen. Just use the options that everyone else is using. I blame the browser (I was using IE at the time) :lol:

[pocketpcadmirer]

Only Right hand here !!

Sunny :D

[ironguy]

I'm right-handed but people have said I'm ambiguous... :D

or was it amphibious...
maybe ambivalent...

I don't care either way... 8)

[shindullin]

I once saw a post-game interview with Michael Vick in which he said that he was "Both Handed". I wish that I was both handed. :mrgreen:

[Janak Parekh]

(moved to Off-Topic, as it belongs there)

I once saw a post-game interview with Michael Vick in which he said that he was "Both Handed". I wish that I was both handed. :mrgreen:
Maybe not after last night's game... 8O ;)

--janak

[Darius Wey]

I'm right-handed, but both-footed for ball sports such as soccer (my left foot is actually the stronger of the two). What does that make me? ;)

[Jeff Rutledge]

I'm right handed, but have a relatively strong left hand. I find that I use my left hand for more "precision maneuvering" and my right hand when need more power.

I was actually left handed until I was about five- or six-years-old, but switched to my right for some reason (and not because my parents tied my hand down or anything like that). :)

[rocky_raher]

I'm right-handed but people have said I'm ambiguous... :D

or was it amphibious...
maybe ambivalent...

I don't care either way... 8)

Ambidextrous??

[KTamas]

Both. Writing and using the mouse is with my right hand, but the rest is mostly with my left hand.

[OSUKid7]

Right-handed, but I type primarily with my left hand. I blame (or thank) using a mouse from a young age. I often wish I could write with my left hand as well, though.

[KTamas]

Right-handed, but I type primarily with my left hand. I blame (or thank) using a mouse from a young age. I often wish I could write with my left hand as well, though.
I wish PocketBreeze could detect if i'm using my Pocket PC with my right or left hand and turn off or on the "left handed" mode... :lol: Or I should just decide it finally? :roll:

[Jon Westfall]

I'm right-handed, but both-footed for ball sports such as soccer (my left foot is actually the stronger of the two). What does that make me? ;)

Weird.

Actually, it makes you normal. The right hemisphere that controls your left foot is more active in visual-spatial tasks than the left hemisphere. Hence, it would make sense that in sports (especially open-loop tasks such as kicking a ball), your left foot may have an advantage.

Handedness is actually very near and dear to my heart (my lab has had a handedness bent for the last few years - a NSF grant will do that). We don't look at direction though - we look at strength. Basically, it breaks down like this: Inside your head there is a nice bundle of nerves called the Corpus Collosum. It connects your right and left hemispheres together and allows them to 'talk' to each other. Now the nifty part is that people with a larger corpus collosum tend to also use both hands for a variety of tasks (they aren't ambidextrous necessarily, they just may prefer to use one hand for writing, the other for opening jars, etc..). We refer to those individuals as Mixed handers, and they tend to perform better on some tasks than those individuals known as Strong Handers who tend to use 1 hand for all operations. There are advantages and disadvantages to both groups.

So what am I? I'm a strongly right handed person. And there are a lot of me's - the breakdown goes something like this:

1% of the population is strongly left-handed
15% of the population is left handed
for our purposes we also do a median split in our data, generally this means that on 9 out of 10 tasks we ask some one, they must answer "Always Right" (or "Always Left") to be classified as a strong hander. By virtue of the median split, 50% are strong handers, 50% are mixed handers.

Ok, now that I've confused you all, feel free to ignore all this neurological junk and just live in a world of left vs. right - but you're fooling yourself - that stuff doesn't tell you half as much as strong vs. mixed ;)

[OSUKid7]

\The right hemisphere that controls your left foot is more active in visual-spatial tasks than the left hemisphere. Hence, it would make sense that in sports (especially open-loop tasks such as kicking a ball), your left foot may have an advantage.

Handedness is actually very near and dear to my heart (my lab has had a handedness bent for the last few years - a NSF grant will do that). We don't look at direction though - we look at strength. Basically, it breaks down like this: Inside your head there is a nice bundle of nerves called the Corpus Collosum. It connects your right and left hemispheres together and allows them to 'talk' to each other. Now the nifty part is that people with a larger corpus collosum tend to also use both hands for a variety of tasks (they aren't ambidextrous necessarily, they just may prefer to use one hand for writing, the other for opening jars, etc..). We refer to those individuals as Mixed handers, and they tend to perform better on some tasks than those individuals known as Strong Handers who tend to use 1 hand for all operations. There are advantages and disadvantages to both groups.

So what am I? I'm a strongly right handed person. And there are a lot of me's - the breakdown goes something like this:

1% of the population is strongly left-handed
15% of the population is left handed
for our purposes we also do a median split in our data, generally this means that on 9 out of 10 tasks we ask some one, they must answer "Always Right" (or "Always Left") to be classified as a strong hander. By virtue of the median split, 50% are strong handers, 50% are mixed handers.

Ok, now that I've confused you all, feel free to ignore all this neurological junk and just live in a world of left vs. right - but you're fooling yourself - that stuff doesn't tell you half as much as strong vs. mixed ;)
Well I'll be...mixed right handed, I'd guess. ;) Never know what you'll learn when surfing the 'net at 2am. :lol:

Very interesting, Jon. I was going to ask what you do for a living, but then I remembered the Our Team (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/team.php) page. But it appears your entry is out of date, iirc. So I guess I will ask - what sort of job do you have to be able to research such cool stuff? :)

[Darius Wey]

Ok, now that I've confused you all, feel free to ignore all this neurological junk and just live in a world of left vs. right - but you're fooling yourself - that stuff doesn't tell you half as much as strong vs. mixed ;)

Well, what's great is that I understood all that. :)

On a completely unrelated note, your last name bears a striking resemblance to the Edinger-Westphal nucleus. Anyone ever tell you that?

[Don Tolson]

Hmm. I noticed today in the review of the Bluetooth Headphone Kit (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/articles.php?action=expand,44393) that the reviewer said sorry to left handers as it wouldnt be as good.

Actually, I was trying to say that if you wanted to put the microphone in the other side of the headset, so as to be more convenient, then you were out of luck.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply there was any 'goodness' about right over left, or that left-handers would hear any difference in sound quality. 8O

[Jon Westfall]

Very interesting, Jon. I was going to ask what you do for a living, but then I remembered the Our Team (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/team.php) page. But it appears your entry is out of date, iirc. So I guess I will ask - what sort of job do you have to be able to research such cool stuff? :)

Actually, it's not out of date...


Psychology has always been of interest to me. I enjoy knowing how my brain works, and how the brains of other people process information and produce output of some sort. Currently, I'm studying for my Masters and eventual Ph.D. in Psychology at The University of Toledo. My area of specialty is Cognitive Psychology, which fits me well because of my interest in.

That's the sort of job you get that lets you do research ;) Handedness is one of the major things I'm looking at in my masters thesis.

[Jon Westfall]

On a completely unrelated note, your last name bears a striking resemblance to the Edinger-Westphal nucleus. Anyone ever tell you that?

My grandfather was closer actually - his name was Edward Westfall. The strange thing is how difficult it is for people to spell my name right. Between "Jon" with no h (or Jonathan with an on) and the alternate forms of Westfall, I am truly amazed when I go somewhere and people actually get my name right - or maybe that's just the pessimist in me.

[Tony Rylow]

Bah. Atleast you have a name most people have heard before...