Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!spdcc!mirror!rayssd!anomaly!mpd From: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Sinister Hackers 8-) Keywords: Hacker Left Right Hand Message-ID: <2594@anomaly.sbs.com> Date: 17 Aug 90 20:42:59 GMT References: <1990Aug6.233133.4791@actrix.co.nz> Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI 02917 Lines: 18 geoff@actrix.co.nz (Geoff McCaughan) writes: >I would expect hackers to be 'left brain' predominant (Analytical & >logical thinkers), yet my understanding of left handedness does not >support this. Could it be that hackers tend to be creative thinkers >rather than analytical types? Actually, the left side of your body is controlled by the right side of the brain, and the right side is controlled by the left. Thus, I would expect right-handed people to be more "analytical" as they are using the predominent (left) side of the brain.... MD -- -- Michael P. Deignan # mpd@anomaly.sbs.com # ...!uunet!rayssd!anomaly!mpd -- -- Author, SCO Ported Software Compendium, and Maintainer of Online Archives -- -- Telebit: +1 401 455 0347 Login: xxcp Password: xenix (local rmail ok) -- -- Files: anomaly!~/SOFTLIST anomaly!~/ARCHELP --