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Post by Sue on Nov 25, 2005 10:57:56 GMT -5
pages.prodigy.net/unohu/dominance.htmDoes anyone else here have some sort of "mixed dominance"? I am dominant on the left side of my body with an exception to my right-handedness. I had always wondered why this was, with most of the people I knew being entirely dominant on only one side--and that is when I did a little searching and pulled this website up. Also, I was curious to know (if you have mixed dominance) if there are any particular subjects that you experience difficulty in? I have always struggled in Math (I am a complete math-i-tard) no matter how much I study--even flunked college Algebra twice (the second time I had learned the material but could not perform "fast" enough on the tests).
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Post by moonchain on Nov 25, 2005 11:48:58 GMT -5
That was a pretty interesting link. I find I'm dominant on my right side, with exception of my left eye (because my right has worse sight and astigmatism) and the fact that I chew on both sides of my mouth an equal amount of time from my weird OCD. Although I have been called an honorary left-hander since I tend to think more creatively than most right-handers. And I can't tell my "dominant" leg through the hopping exercise because I blew out my left knee years ago.
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Post by Tara on Nov 25, 2005 16:06:52 GMT -5
Hmm... Have you asked your parents if they prefered you write with your right hand instead of your left? I know that in some religions, a child having the tendency to wanting to write with their left hand may be trying to follow the devil (or something like that). #paranoid# I don't know anyone who still carries this superstition, but I was just wondering. #idunno#
As for me, I don't think I have mixed dominance. As far as I'm concerned, everything is on the right side.
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Post by Sue on Nov 25, 2005 19:27:19 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that moonchain.
Well I have asked and the answer was "no". So if they did, then they're not telling. I do not remember ever trying to write with the left either--seems the right hand always worked for me. I suspect that the other sides of me are the ones that are screwed up (left-eye dominance, left-foot, etc.).
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Post by moonchain on Nov 26, 2005 13:40:18 GMT -5
Oh it's not so bad. I walk and climb stairs okay, but it does funny things when I don't want it to. I spent all summer doing a lot of walking, though, and that's improved its condition. I just wish I could tell when a storms abrewin' with it.
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Post by teancum79 on Dec 7, 2005 17:43:57 GMT -5
I was diagnosed with mixed dominance years ago. My brothers were reading the hardy boys by age 5 and I was having trouble with "see spot get the ball" until I was 8. I suck at math and homonyms kick my butt still. I’m right handed and left eyed which makes shooting a bit of a trick so my dreams of being a sniper are never going to be realized.  In my child development class our teacher talked a bit about how the brain forms connections to help us get by and deal with information. Anyhow when I tired out public school in the 5th grade I was 3 years behind in my spelling, but 6 years ahead in general knowledge. Anyhow as best as I can figure I had such a hard time learning from books that I adapted to learning much better by listening. As it is I can still remember very clearly a history lecture from 1999, but I’m rather rusty on most of what I read over the summer. |
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Post by littlepea on Dec 7, 2005 21:05:09 GMT -5
i'm completely right-sided. i write with my right hand and kick a football better with my right foot and skate and snowboard "regular" rather than goofy (although i know several right-dominant people who prefer to go goofy so maybe that's a bit different). i thought my left eye was dominant since i wear glasses to make up for long-sightedness in only my right eye (my left eye is fine, just my right eye that's long-sighted - the one that makes you need reading glasses, like an old man  ) but i did the test that the article links to and apparently i'm right dominant in my eye too. i think i'm right ear dominant though i can't be quite sure, i usually hold a phone in my right hand so it's natural to put it to my right ear, and if i need to write something down while on the phone i'll switch hands and ears ... it's funny how the article says that if you force someone to use their non-dominant hand then it really messes with their brain - in football (soccer) the best footballers can often use both feet just as well. i can use my left foot better than most of my friends, but the best british footballer ever (George Best, who died last week in fact) was famous for it since no-one could tell which foot he preferred. the story was that when he was 9 ot 10 he would only use his right foot and his school coach told him that if he could use his left foot more often then he would improve dramatically, so his coach made him wear a really heavy boot on his right foot and a normal football boot on his left foot for several games to force him to get good with his left foot - the experiment was complete when Best scored 12 goals with his left foot in a 21-0 win and since then he must have worked on both feet equally because by the time he was famous no-one could tell whether he was right footed or left footed (he even used to take free-kicks and corners with either foot depending on the position). as far as messing with his brain, well, he was a major alcoholic, and that's what killed him in the end, he couldn't even stop drinking after he got a liver transplant (for which many people are obviously highly critical of him). it wasn't that he was a typical alcholic, apparently, it was just that he could never say no to anything - people would come and ask him to make an appearance somewhere for charity and he'd always say yes, and then more and more people would come and he'd double and triple book his days and end up letting people down, so people got the impression that he was unreliable, but it was just that he couldn't turn anything down. this went for his alcoholism as well since whenever he went to a pub or a club people would always offer him drinks, and of course you can't insult them by rejecting it ... so i think i'm completely right-dominant - the article says that mixed dominant people often have trouble learning, or something like that. well, in school i was always in the top class for each subject and i basically got straight A's, except for highschool english which i found a bit harder to understand. i think that's more to do with my male brain than any question of right or left dominance. |
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Post by Sue on Dec 21, 2005 16:42:42 GMT -5
Thank you for your responses. Posted by teancum79 on Dec 7, 2005, 4:43pm Well it is interesting to hear that someone else here has problems with this strangeness. I have never actually spoken to anyone with it before. Posted by littlepea on Dec 7, 2005, 8:05pm Straight A's....I hate people like you. |
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Post by Tara on Dec 21, 2005 19:17:19 GMT -5
I missed what littlepea said earlier about learning English and the male brain. littlepea, why would you think something like that? What would it be about the male way of thinking that you think would make it harder for you to learn English? Must it do with some form of creativity involved in learning or what? Wait a minute... what the hell would creativity have to do with men? I think I just confused myself. All I know is that you're more of a competitive type person, so I can see how you would've pushed yourself to get those As (although I'm not entirely sure if you were consciously thinking that you must get to the top of the class) |
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Post by littlepea on Dec 21, 2005 21:22:42 GMT -5
i just found school really easy, i hardly did any revision for exams and did my homework each night in less than an hour usually. i got a few prizes in my latter years of school for being 1st in maths and 1st in latin and greek, but that's only 3 subjects out of the 10 or 12 (depending how you count it) that i did in total. i was always under the impression that boys did better at maths and girls did better at english in school, but maybe it's a UK thing. something to do with men being more logical and women being more emotional or something (eg. it's easier for girls to see what shakespeare was getting at with all his sonnets etc.) school did a shít job of preparing us for uni, however, and i've struggled since coming to uni and haven't had a single A so far (a few Bs, lots of Cs, lots of Ds). it's this year and next year that count, though, if i average an A then i get a 1st class degree in law, but only about 5 people in the whole year (about 200 people) get that. if i average a B then i get a "2-1" which is good enough to be employed by any top law firm - most people who go on to do law get this, but if i average a C then i get a "2-2" which is not totally unacceptable. my friend's dad got a 2-2 in law when he finished uni and he went on to be the best criminal lawyer in the area we grew up and is now a top judge. i think i can definitely manage a 2-1, but if i got a 1st, man would life be peachy really gotta put the work in to get that, though ... |
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Post by dianaholberg on Dec 28, 2005 10:35:16 GMT -5
Definitely mixed here. I'm left-handed generally, but there's lots of things I do with my right. For example, my mouse is on the right side -- but that's as much so others will be able to use it as anything. When I bowled the first time, I was throwing right-handed and doing terribly. I don't know why, but it seemed right at the time. Anyway, someone suggested I switch to the left and I got a strike with the first throw! But then it turned out I was almost as bad throwing left-handed as right-handed...  |
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Post by Tara on Mar 22, 2006 12:36:11 GMT -5
Hey, I just stumbled across an article that I thought might interest you guys. What Makes a Lefty: Myths and Mysteries Persist Corey Binns Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com Can openers, scissors and spiral-bound notebooks discriminate against lefties. Despite such challenges, 10 to 12 percent of the human population has historically preferred the left hand. Why doesn't the number ever waiver? Nobody knows for sure, but new research supports a body of evidence that suggests genetics have a hand in it all. ( continue) |
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) but i did the test that the article links to and apparently i'm right dominant in my eye too. i think i'm right ear dominant though i can't be quite sure, i usually hold a phone in my right hand so it's natural to put it to my right ear, and if i need to write something down while on the phone i'll switch hands and ears ...
