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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Does someone REALLY belive this? (tying shoes)
Message-ID: <2726@ncsu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 09:35:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 09:35:23 1984
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[he wore tan shoes with pink shoelaces ...]

Having read on the net that velcro shoes will probably stunt a child's
intellectual and physical development,  I went home and asked my wife
how old she was when she learned to tie her shoes.  She had a puzzled
look on her face as she tried to remember whether she'd owned a pair
of shoes with laces as a kid.  My wife, you see, grew up in Hawaii,
where most children (and many adults) wear sandals or go barefoot.
She had no problems tying her shoes when she finally had to,  and she
is not handicapped in manual dexterity.

Of course, this is anecdotal evidence.  Perhaps someone would care to
study whether their is a statistically significant difference in the
population at large.  Are Hawaiian sailors less adept with their sheets
than others?  Do Hawaiian fishermen avoid hand-tied lures for live bait
(correcting, of course, for the lack of trout streams in Hawaii)?  Does
the basketball team at Chaminade College have to include shoe-tying drills
in their training program?  (I had to bring 'college' into the discussion
somehow. )   Clearly it is useless to argue this issue without getting
some hard facts to disagree about.
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_Doctor_                           Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney
\__Mu__/                           North Carolina State University

[... and a big panama with a purple hat band]