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On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:00:03 +0000, Aidan Karley wrote:
> *most* is not *all*, or even *overwhelmingly*. Which is the
> point. If it were 500:500, or 999:1, then there wouldn't be much of a
> mystery. But since the ratio is more like 200:800 (and for the
> fieldstaff at my work, 400:600 - figure that!), then it's a lot harder
> to explain.
> And I wouldn't be anything like as confident as you seem to be
> about correlating right-handedness with right-eye dominance. Eye
> dominance is considerable more evenly distributed than overt handedness
> (which also tends to imply that the causative influences are not all the
> same in handedness and eye-dominance).
Handedness is a very interesting thing indeed and I think that it
transcends eye dominance.
A friend of mine works in the IT industry and is responsible for hiring
software engineers. She favours hiring left handed software engineers
because in her words "they are demonstrably better at creative problem solving".
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