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From: utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SURVEY RESULTS: Left vs. Right handed mouse use
Keywords: Lots of folks said they wanted to know. (Why?)
Message-ID: <5786@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 88 17:04:47 GMT
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Several weeks ago I posted a survey asking whether people
were right-handed or left-handed, and which hand they
operate their mouse with.
  The results: YES, poople are right- or left-handed, and
they use both hands:-)  But seriously, folks:

           Use       Use
           Left      Right
           Hand      Hand
Left
Handed       4         9

Right        2        29
Handed 

Several people went on at great length (I'm not complaining; 
Thanks to all) about how and why their mouse techniques are
unique.  (Of course you're unique.  You're unique, I'm unique,
we're all unique!  Just because you're unique don't go thinking
you're any different from anybody else!)
  Several other people also wanted to know why I was asking
about this.  Well, to make a short story longer, I got into a
friendly discussion with a one-mouse-button enthusiast, and he
asserted that for the two-button setup to really work the user
needed to be able to switch the functions of the buttons if a  
left-handed person was going to be as productive as a right-handed
person (for whom, he presumed, the software was designed).  I
said NO, and in your comments (all 44 USENET readers responded:-)
not one mention was made about left-/right-button problems.
So there.  I feel smug, and his computer can't do color.

Again, thanks to all who responded.
--Todd

(Q: Why do mice have small balls? )
(                                 ) 
(A: Only 1/3 of them can dance.   )