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From: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Left Handed programmers (was Sinister Hackers 8-))
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.185503.14341@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 23 Aug 90 18:55:03 GMT
References: <1990Aug20.084113@bert.llnl.gov> <1990Aug21.154720.4513@sco.COM> <32590@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com>
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In article <32590@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com> zwicky@pterodactyl.itstd.sri.com.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky) writes:
>In article <1990Aug21.154720.4513@sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
>>Handedness is physiological, not psychological.  In left-handed people, the
>>right side of the brain is "dominant"; the reverse is true for right-handed
>>people.
>
>It's truer to say that for right-handed people, the left side of the
>brain is dominant, and for everybody else, it isn't. Most
>"left-handed" people are actually people with no clearly dominant
>hemisphere. It does depend on how you define "right-handed"; I

In the "Mind-Brain Bulletin", there was a report of some research which
looked at the question of sinistral dominance.  It was found that there
is no significant statistical correlation between people who are left 
handed, and who have the normal left/right brain associations reversed.
HOWEVER, it was found that a large percentage of left-handed children of
left-handed mothers do indeed have this reversal.  So being left handed
is not enough -- your mother also has to be left handed, and then you
have a better chance of being in your right mind.  :-)

-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz