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It Is Better To Be Right Handed Than Left Handed.
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 Specter87  20 Sep 2008 03:45
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Better to be Right than get Left.
 
 Mystery  01 Dec 2008 21:25
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It is better for me to right handed because that’s how I have my desk arranged.
 
 finsch  20 Sep 2008 21:41
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No-one is saying it is wrong to be left-handed, it is just more convenient if you are right-handed as most objects and tools in the western world are ergonomically designed to cater for right-handed people, as these represent the majority.
 
 ibanex_87  20 Sep 2008 13:55
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Yes definately more things are made for right handed people.
 
 macncheese  20 Sep 2008 08:51
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 Do you want to know why. In the olden days that use to tie back our hand because it was a sign of satan. They use to burn us because we were called children of the devil right in the bible. Many insults in latin are about lefties and even the romans would lie about us and make rumors that we would kill your children if we came near. That is why more things are made for righties.
by  fingers15
 05 Oct 2008 15:21
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Actually, I've noticed that lefties are better at sports, especially baseball. It takes people off guard and they can do some things that righties can't.
 
 heracross1  28 Dec 2008 01:23
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You must be right-handed. Hence, your choice.
 
 menhim1967  27 Dec 2008 20:38
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I am a lefty. Some stuidies prove many left handed people are smarter, but what right does anyway have to say that.

It is fun to be left handed...ambedextrious [HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO SPELL IT] is pretty cool, too.

Anyways...I mean no offence, but many left handed people seem so much more unique.
 
 imright20  09 Oct 2008 22:17
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 Your name seems ironic.
"Studies prove 'many' left handed people are smarter."
Could you direct me to their site? A book, perhaps?
by  Homestar
 01 Dec 2008 20:54
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Both is best.
When sawing a piece of wood for instance, I can swap the wood to the other side and saw from the other side, or turn my self around face the other way put the wood in front of me, swap hands and cut from the other way equally as accurately.

I have two sibling south paws, neither of whom can use their rights very well.
 
 keepmindok  25 Sep 2008 08:36
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Actually studies have shown that left handed people are smarter because it has something to do with the left side of the brain. I haven't studied exactly why that is because i'm right handed lol jk. To tell you the truth, i just don't feel like it
 
 ckell663  25 Sep 2008 01:57
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 If your right handed, the left side of your brain is the stronger. Apparently.
by  2free
 25 Sep 2008 01:59
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This is not true but there are some positives to being left handed. Beetoven, Albert Enstien and many other famous people were left handed. And we think inside a diffrent hemisphere which makes us smarter. This may sound weird but theres more of a certain liquid in the right hemispere than in the left. The left handed citizens of the world think in the right hemispere. It is said for left handers to be better at math, science, some sports as tennis and badminton, while the rights tend towards drama, baseball, soccer, etc. Its fun being left handed though because you think inside a diffrent part of your brain then the majority of the world.

But left handed and right handed is not 50/50 even. To be left handed you need 2 change genes to even have a 50% chance of being left handed. While to be right handed you need a dominant gene and a chance gene, 2 chance genes, or 2 dominant genes. Also to be able Ambidextreous you have to be able to do more than write with both hands. You need to go to a hospital in a city and be diagnosed with a MRI by a legal doctor. And it is almost impossible to be 50, 50 on both sides of your brain. Maybe 80 20, but it is virturally impossible to be 50 50
 
 fingers15  21 Sep 2008 13:26
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 that all sounds very scientific there, fingers15, but I can do anything with either hand equally, so that looks to be 50/50 even ....;-)
by  Scorpion
 25 Sep 2008 09:08
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I am right handed myself but I don't think it makes a difference
 
 tunainabun  20 Sep 2008 21:22
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I'm right handed but I'm going to disagree. It doesn't matter if your right or left handed. One isn't better than the other.
 
 kddan  20 Sep 2008 09:20
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Only in the sense that most things are made for right handed people. But that's like saying it's better to be a man than a woman because things like medicine are made for men and sometimes have negative effects on women for whom they are not tested.

Bias of any sort is not welcome. I and other left handers have encountered a variety of righthanded bigotry over the years, being called "satanic", physically abused when attempting to use the left hand, discrimination in hiring because employers don't want to "accomodate people" (i.e. They don't want to move the phone to the righthand side of the desk), and other stupidity. And in case you say "it's not as if people were killed for being left handed", they were killed in past centuries by nutcase godbots who "thought" lefthanders were satan worshippers (see: Witch hunting).

I'll make you a deal: If you cut off your right hand and use your left, I'll cut off my left and use my right. Then we'll see who survives longer. You might try to say, "See, the right hand is better!" as you die of starvation, but the reality is the lefthander - me - is better able to adapt, while you couldn't.
 
 K9  20 Sep 2008 08:45
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 finally, I take your part here, K9....I came into this world a south-paw, but was persecuted as a child by my older sister into using my right hand, so much so that I am now 50/50. so-called, "nurture", not real Nurture....;-)
by  Scorpion
 25 Sep 2008 09:10
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I am equally Ambidextrous:
50/50.

So I can say, fairly, no, this debate is untrue;-)
 
 Scorpion  20 Sep 2008 07:48
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 It is IMPOSSIBLE to be 50/50 maybe 40/60 but the chance of that is less than .001.
by  fingers15
 05 Oct 2008 15:15
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In the world there is 50 percent of each type of dominant hand.
 
 skinnyjean  20 Sep 2008 04:25
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 No actually there is about 14% of left handers in the world and it comes back to there genes. You can have 2 dominant genes 1 dominant and 1 chance or to chance genes and you'll be right handed. Left handers need 2 chance genes and at that there's a 50% chance they could become right handed.
by  fingers15
 05 Oct 2008 15:13
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Its not better to be either...I'm both..and there isn't anything wrong with it
 
 pikachu  20 Sep 2008 03:49
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 well, hello, Fellow-Ambi :-)
by  Scorpion
 20 Sep 2008 08:57
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