Which Hand?

[Jordan]

Im left handed so i write with my left hadn but i eat right handed and also shoot right handed but i still consider myself left handed when anyone askes

Jordan

[The Guy in the Kilt at UC]

Don't forget that the population is weighted towards right handed people. About 90-93% of the population is right handed. Also, you may want to define exactly what you mean by ambidexterity. My father is left handed and considers himself so, but writes with his right hand because he was forced to learn it that way in school way back when.

[Wild Macrae]

Also, you may want to define exactly what you mean by ambidexterity.

I'll second that (although I've already voted). I consider myself left-handed, although I do a fair number of things right-handed (because the world has forced me to do so). Pretty much anything that requires power I do right-handed and anything that requires finesse I do left-handed, but in my heart and mind I'm a lefty.

[sathor]

Also, you may want to define exactly what you mean by ambidexterity.

I'll second that (although I've already voted). I consider myself left-handed, although I do a fair number of things right-handed (because the world has forced me to do so).

Actually, I know it was a bit ambiguous, but lets look at it like this, most of the people that might think it ambiguous are people figuring out which non right hand option is best. And right now, the right handed are under 60% of the responses. Ignoring the Ambi. group, there is still a larger than expected incidence of Lefthandedness.

[LANCER1562]

I am right hand dominant but have learned to do a number of things with my left. I believe my son is ambidextrous. Up until about the third grade, he wrote with his right hand because he was expected to. Between the 4th and 5th grades he would do a lot of writing with his right but when his hand got tired he switched to his left and now that he is in the 6th grade he does things the other way round-starting with his left hand and then switching to his right.

[GDub]

I write right, throw right, bat right, but I'm a guitar player (ambidextrous) and have been a street performing juggler (totally ambidextrous), so my left hand doesn't just hang idly by my side.

[Pleater]

I 'voted' left as that is dominant, but I use a mouse right handed, use a cricket bat right - though bowl left, use a racket left - cut with scissors, a bread knife, a saw - and iron left - use an axe right, and a double or hand and a half sword right handed - though I dig either way and use tools either hand - I use lighter swords left handed, with a stilletto I strike down right handed but upwards, left.

I play a right handed guitar, and I shoot right handed with a rifle - but left with a bow - that is the long bow sort - right handed with a crossbow.

I think being fairly left handed I am more sensitive to the wrongness of things which are made right hand only.

It is quite an interesting study, to see just how left handed people who write left handed are over a range of tasks.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[butch]

I am a 100% lefthanded according to the test listed in the book "How Left
Handers Have Thrived and Survived in a Right Handed World" But I do many tasks with both hands since I am an electrician and use both hands it is convienent to be able to use both.

[dfmacliam]

I am a 100% lefthanded according to the test listed in the book "How Left
Handers Have Thrived and Survived in a Right Handed World" But I do many tasks with both hands since I am an electrician and use both hands it is convienent to be able to use both.

I am an electrician,too. When I am teaching my guys to make joints, terminate PLC's, or stripping cable.. I have to slow down and remind them,I am a lefty and do it differently than a righty would.. I wear my tools on my left side, and do few tasks right handed..

[SteveB]

Ambidextrous:
Posters, chalkboard, hammer, screwdriver, linesman's, drawing -- Left hand.
Operating lathe, Bridgeport, surface grinder, and fixed power tools --- Right hand.

Writing, eating, portable power tools. - whichever hand is convenient.
Started writing left handed until the left hand suffered too many welts from the steel meter stick, in early elementary school. Later schools did not care which I used, and have since used either. My rodent for this computer is convenient left handed, at work - right handed.

Guess that means I am just plain confused.

Slainte