Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcsla!cottrell From: cottrell@sdcsla.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) Newsgroups: net.med,net.kids,net.social Subject: Re: Intelligence and handedness: reading speed Message-ID: <985@sdcsla.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 16:17:50 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsla.985 Posted: Wed Sep 25 16:17:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 04:26:59 EDT References: <127@unc.unc.UUCP> <1080@ihlpg.UUCP> <950@sdcsla.UUCP> <1664@dciem.UUCP> <960@sdcsla.UUCP> <1676@dciem.UUCP> <2267CJC@psuvm> Reply-To: cottrell@sdcsla.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) Organization: U.C. San Diego, Cognitive Science Lab Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.med:2494 net.kids:2119 net.social:952 In article <2267CJC@psuvm> CJC@psuvm.BITNET writes: >The original suggestion was that left-handers and people closely related to >left-handers read much faster. > >I am by far the fastest reader I know (measured in number of books read in an >evening) and I am completely right-handed, as is all my family. Actually, as the original poster, the suggestion (by a Great Person in the Field, who shall remain nameless, suggested by some of his/her data, which may or may not have replicated, I just wanted to hear if anyone else had noticed, ready for the rest of the main clause?) was only that people with left handers in the family (uncles, etc.) but who themselves were *right* handed, read faster than right handers who don't have left handers in their family. Sorry for any confusion. gary cottrell cottrell@nprdc (ARPA) Institute for Cognitive Science sdcsvax!sdcsla!cottrell (USENET) UCSD Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com