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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.followup,net.misc
Subject: Re: Results of handedness survey
Message-ID: <5521@duke.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:50:19 EST
Article-I.D.: duke.5521
Posted: Thu Mar  7 09:50:19 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 04:42:25 EST
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Summary: 

In article <649@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>
>	...	Whichever way
>you slice it, it's clear that the people who responded to the survey have
>a lot more lefties than the average.
>    What can we conclude from this?  
	... I think its some sort of sinister plot.

>    Someone mentioned that there are *no* lefties in the USSR.  (presumably
>because lefties are purposely driven out of their right minds by prejudiced
>elementary school teachers.)  If this is true, it's not too suprising, 
>since it was only a decade or so ago that our own educators became convinced
>that left-handedness might not be a sign of eeville.
	... Actually, I was converted by a Hungarian great-grandmother who
	was pretty certain of this, so it may be an eastern European trait
	rather than limited to the USSR.
	... the result was to leave me ambisinistral -- equally clumsy with
	both hands.
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			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)