Display:
Um, not to be rude or anything, but does the survey assume that everyone here is male, or that everyone is female? It says right there in the quote that there's a difference. I suggest that the poll may need to be restructured...
by asdf on Sun Dec 7th, 2008 at 08:22:10 PM EST
Interesting comment.  It would be instructive to find out the male/female proportion of respondents.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Dec 7th, 2008 at 09:25:12 PM EST
[ Parent ]
No, you're right, I had that very do'h moment about 6 hours in, by which time there were already a significant number of responses. And so couldn't re-cast the survey.

It came about from a suggestion from Loefing (who was female the last time I met her) to me (born male, now female-ish) so I never considered the gendered angle until too late.

It would be worth re-doing to take into consideration, but I don't know which gender would make for a relevant answer for me as my handedness was entirely natal.

I didn't know holding cutlery in the standard way was handed, it has never occured to me it could be done in a left handed way. So I'd never count that as a right-handed activity.

Interestingly several famous guitarists, Gary Moore, Tony Iommi and, I believe, Steve Vai, are lefties who play right handed. Jimi Hendrix was allegedly able to play right handed, although obviously not as well. FWIW I can play a RH guitar okay upside down (except fingerpicking), but a lot of habitual skills like vibrato don't work.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 06:17:34 AM EST
[ Parent ]
I'm not all that sure guitar-playing is actually lateralised ; actually, for expert shredding, when playing "right handed", it is the left hand that is really working hard. I think it has more to do with habits - and obviously, once you learn to play one side, switching becomes hard. Violin for example is clearly much more taxing on the left hand, and I never heard of "left handed violins" ...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 08:42:18 PM EST
[ Parent ]
A gis of "left handed violins" gets hits...
by asdf on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 12:48:19 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:
Login
. Make a new account
. Reset password
Occasional Series