Posted on 02/17/2005 6:49:41 PM PST by T Minus Four
My seventh grader is doing a science fair project involving "handedness". She needs a larger sample for her data. If you would like to help, please do the following: clasp your hands together with your fingers intertwined. Report which thumb is on top and if you are right or left handed. Thanks for your help! Standing outside the grocery store didn't work, even with tootsie rolls as a thank you. People were too afraid we were selling something!
Right handed,left thumb on top.
Right handed. Left thumb on top.
"This is an extremely poorly designed experiment...blah blah blah"
What are you talking about? The experiment is simply to find out what proportion of what handed people clasp their hands which way. Your little "insight" about how a certain thumb gets on top was brilliant...and obvious to my infant daughter. It's the point of the experiment, hich is not poorly designed; it is merely straightforward and simple.
I'm right handed, my left thumb was on top. My son is left handed his right thumb was on top.
(Maybe I was changed?)
Right handed, right on top.
(If she wants to do a psychology experiment... have her find out which way she does it... then have her consciously do it the opposite way (ALWAYS) for about 17-20 days... after that she will find that subconsciously (most likely) she will now put them the other way without thinking about it)
Right handed and right thumb on the top. Have fun!
Another left-on-top righty
right on right!
Right handed, right thumb on top.
I was hoping to find out if maybe I was weird or my Winston was going to fall off.
I am so delighted that your infant daughter is a genuine genius following in your footsteps. After taking the "test" I simply noticed that depending on the position of my elbow, what I was doing prior to clasping and myriad other details including relative hand size and whether the gripping was initiated as thumb to thumb ( top) or pinky to pinky had more to do with the ultimate thumb position than my "handedness". Also there is a third and fourth positioning , again depending on prior extremity positioning and prior activity that is not listed. I am so very sorry to insult your superior brilliance with such mundane questions. After all science must not question and explotre in depth but skim the surface of junk science as is practiced in the schools and the poorly executed Science Fairs. Recovering from the flu led me to sift through FR again after several years absence...now I remember the reason for the absence , an intolerance for the inane.
probably the latter (-;
cheers
Right handed (and right thinking). left thumb on top.
I'd say your getting a fair sampling, perhaps better than MSM polls ;>)
Right thumb on top. I write left handed and throw a ball right handed. Don't know how that fits with convention.
apology accepted
Yep, half the sample size. Same results. I'll run your other suggestions by my son in case he wants to redo it for this years fair. Thanks.
Left thumb on top, left-handed. But I think I'm artificially left-handed. My mother was left-handed and taught me to write at about four years old, and she taught me HER way. I think I should've been right-handed since I only write and eat with my left hand. I hit, throw, play guitar, etc., right-handedly.
Good grief, that's way more info than you needed.
Over and out.
MM
Actually I take that back, it isn't accepted, since you didn't apologize for insulting a seventh grade girl to her mother, which is why I posted to you in the first place. I do get a kick out of the fact that you accuse me of arrogance, however, when your ridiculous criticism reeks of narcissism.
Left handed; left thumb on top.
Thanks, you two, for preserving what little is left of my sanity!!!
...now...about getting that song outta my head....
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