Left or right?
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Topic: Left or right?
Posted By: Eemu Ranta
Subject: Left or right?
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 11:00
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Inspired by the "left or right" politics thread, I am asking you this important question. About 8% of world population is left-handed. Statistically speaking, left-handed people have higher IQ. Universally accepted, prog is music for the brain. So, a priori, a forum for prog-enthusiasts should have a higher amount of left-handed individuals than the rest of the world. Oh, and by the way, don't take me seriously. And yes, I'm left-handed  |
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Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 11:05
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So do I. ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 11:06
I've only got one third of the use of my left hand - that probably explains why I'm so dim  ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 11:11
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There is an old saying: "If the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handed people are in their right minds." Chalk one up for another southpaw...me. Peace. |
Posted By: Eemu Ranta
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 11:16
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^^^
Words of wisdom
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 11:17
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Right-handed ... but I only recently read that left-handers live an
average of nine years less ... oh well, quality over quantity I suppose I actually always wanted to be ambi-dexterous ... I had an uncle who was born left-handed but who was forced to be right-handed (They did that sort of stupid thing in the 1950s) ... in the end though it helped him cos he played field hockey in three Olympics and was famous was his dribbles in which he could shift the stick from right to left hand and back! ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 11:36
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you probably wont believe this but ol DB is a lefty too.
Now you know why Im always coming from Leftfield. |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 13:36
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Lefthanded.. I've done some IQ tests because some teachers demanded from me, they had an impression (it wasn't a joke.. I passed the test) that I was "Highly gifted" (don't know the exact translation.. hoogbegaafd in dutch) there was also a thing with being dyslectic and creativity, of the combination of being lefthanded and dyslectic (I am also dyslectic) is said that it is an plus, plus story. I hope it does.. Got a lot to learn though! -------------  
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 14:30
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Left handed. I remember once playing table tennis doubles at university and suddenly noticing that the other three players were left handed too. Freaky.
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 15:03
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neither...I'm maladroit, equally clumsy with both hands. Futrurama fans- I have what Fry's holophoner teacher described as "stupid fingers". but I guess I favor my clumsy right more than my clumsy left, so there you go. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 15:55
I'm a lefty as well....lots of lefties here I guess. Must be a progger attribute.
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 18:26
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As an aside, the word "ambidextrous" is somewhat misleading. To be trult ambidextrous, you must be able to do the following five things equally well with both hands: -use a fork, knife and soupspoon As you see, the first has to do with dexterity, the next two have to do with sports, and the last has to do with strength. For example, I play guitar and drums "right-handed" (i.e., the drums set up for a right-handed person, the guitar strings in standard position, with the neck to my left), and my right hand is "stronger" on piano. However, I cannot do any of the four things listed above with my right hand. Thus, I am not ambidextrous, though some might think so watching me play drums or guitar. Peace. |
Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 21:24
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Lefty myself. I can't say I know my IQ, but both my parents are mid 150s. Seem to be a large # of Leftys here. Maybe you've hit upon something. So maani, I guess you could say that you're a freak yes? ------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 21:24
Never heard that one before.------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
maani wrote:Posted By: Rob The Plant
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 21:27
------------- Collaborators will take your soul. |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 22:40
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I trully am stupid ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 19 2005 at 23:01
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Rob: I may be a "freak," but not because I'm right-handed in some things and left-handed in others!! Peace. |
Posted By: Eemu Ranta
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 05:11
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I, too, play guitar/cello right handed. That only means that my fretboard-
hand is better, which is far from a disadvantage. These statistics are turning out to be remarkable. I don't know if this proves that prog is intelligent music or that left-handers are smarter. Probably both
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 06:03
IQ tests measure nothing but your ability to pass IQ tests - for most of human history, the ability to solve fatuous logic puzles has not been a particularly useful survival skill. You should never trust the judgement of anybody who brags about having a high IQ. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Captain Fudge
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 06:42
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My best friend, all three ex-girlfriends and half of the gang in school are left-handed. I was ambidextrious when I was liitle, but I've lost the capacity because of lack of exercise ------------- 
Teenage sucks hard -- Emo sucks even harder Epic. Simply epic. |
Posted By: Eemu Ranta
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 06:57
I'm sure you're right
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Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 09:40
It was also told to me that therefore creativity with lefthanded people are higher, the time to co-ordinate the left hand is faster (yeah.. really.. uuhm .. sounds really stupid I also play righthanded guitar, and in my case.. I have HUGE advantages of that, because the right-hand work of hitting the strings cost far less strenght and agility then the left hand (in my case at least), and yeah I also play without plectrum, can't get the right word for it... -------------
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 10:32
| fingerpicking? |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 10:35
| Wow, there are lots of left-handed people here. How bizarre. |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 10:40
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Well I´m right-handed, but I use my left when the right hand get´s tired
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: February 20 2005 at 12:15
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damn how could I forget that -------------
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