Left handed. More generalisations...

[rhythmaning]

I am left-handed. Indeed, people close to me have said I am the most left-handed person they have come across.

So I looked at this post by Chris Dillow with a lot of interest.

Apparently, I am more likely to be depressed than right-handers - although my usual state is positively overbrimming, I have probably scored over the two-weeks test in the past couple of years. (Still, I feel pretty positive about this!)

On the other hand, I am also meant to earn 5% more than right-handers, so maybe it is worth. And I should move to the States - where I'd earn 15% more.

And of course I am a wonderful footballer. (This last bit, unfortunately isn't proven.)

Comments

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

I'd always had this theory that left handers were, in general, more intelligent than right handers. I based this rather unscientifically on the fact that about half of the academics I've dealt with are left handed, which is obviously way higher a proportion than in general society.

As I understand it, left handers don't have such a demarkation of what side of the brain does what. That makes sense to me as I've always considered a sign of true mental ability being the ability to see a logical situation in an abstract manner and vice versa - being able to juggle these things must be easier if they aren't so physically separate?

All of that might be a load of dingo's kidneys, but it is the vague idea of someone who knows naff all about neurology.

[topicaltim.livejournal.com]

Cricket is one of those sports where the extent of people's left or right handedness is important because it defines the way they play. I've always been fascinated by the way you can be a right-hand batsman despite being a left-arm bowler and vice versa.

I can't lay hands on it, but I have a memory of a survey Wisden did years ago, when they gave a load of professional cricketers a list of activities, and asked which hand they used for each of them, starting with batting and bowling, and ending with brushing their teeth (which I think was supposed to be the true test of left handedness). I think David Gower emerged as the most left handed man in first-class cricket...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

When I "played" cricket, I bowled left handed but held the bat right handed. No idea why.