Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.med,net.kids,net.social Subject: Re: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness Message-ID: <518@baylor.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:44:07 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.518 Posted: Fri Aug 23 07:44:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:36:09 EDT References: <127@unc.unc.UUCP> <1080@ihlpg.UUCP> <165@ho95e.UUCP> <1082@dual.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.med:2194 net.kids:1744 net.social:915 > his first paragraph, I take exception to his allusion (not an original idea, > actually . . . in fact, it seems quite popular) that left-handed people are > clumsy. Like my mother and sister, I'm left-handed (my father and brother > are both righties . . . figure that one out). All of us have normal motor He never said lefties are clumsy. He just said that he would be more clumsy if HE had been forced to use his less-coordinated hand. As a right, that's his left. The subject is leftys forced to use their right hands as kids. This has indeed been shown to lead to clumsiness... but nowhere does it imply southpaws are clumsy. Sinister, maybe. -- Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076