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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: Results of handedness survey
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 16:12:51 EST
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> I am right handed, but left eyed.  This means that when I look through
> a camera lens, telescope, peephole, etc, I use my left eye.  I don't
> know if this is a strong physical preference or just a habit I developed
> from childhood by random choice. 
> 
> 	Mark

I am also right-handed and left-eyed, and it wasn't random chance -- I am
a severe myopic [e.g. certified blind by US Navy] and my left eye is
about twice as good as my right (officially 1/20 vs 1/40).  Until contact
lenses came along I couldn't even be corrected to 20/20, and they just
manage.  I never learned to fire a rifle properly because I caught the
recoil in the chops, and decided pacifism was easier.

As a curious sideline, in response to a bet I learned to throw a baseball
left-handed, though I do everything else important with my right hand --
and I can *still* throw a ball farther left-handed, after 38 years of
sloth.

If this proves anything I fail to see what it is.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronony Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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