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  2. From: darren@zikzak.apana.org.au (Darren Brett Gower)
  3. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.psycgrad
  4. Subject: Re: Left-handers as achievers
  5. Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:40:33 +1100
  6. Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
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  12. "Gerri Oppedisano (8-863-7225)" <gerri@WATSON.IBM.COM> writes:
  13.  
  14. >> It would seem that there are degrees of left-handedness.  For example, I
  15. >> [...]
  16.  
  17. >I'm the same way, except I do almost everything else with my right hand except
  18. >write.. I play tennis and bat rightie, cut steak and use scissors with my right
  19. >hand fine, etc.. Maybe we're doubly endowed (..or doubly defective?!).
  20.  
  21. But this type of 'dual-handedness' behaviour (from which I, too, suffer) is
  22. more probably learned rather than naturally developed, don't you
  23. think? I am 'only' 25, but even in my lower primary school days there was a
  24. tendancy to teach 'right handed'... Think of demonstrations of the
  25. use of bat and ball games, even the use of knife and fork. Most
  26. people learn by example, and I'm fairly confident that give a chance to
  27. develop such skill naturally (that is, without the 'pollution' :-) of
  28. a right handed teacher) that the average left hander would tend to remain
  29. a 'pure' lefty.
  30.  
  31. Opinions?
  32.  
  33. regards,
  34. Darren.
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  37. | Darren Gower               | "I'd be careful who you call smart or    |
  38. | - The Executioner          |  not smart.  Smart isn't knowing how to  |
  39. | darren@zikzak.apana.org.au |  save six bytes.  Smart is knowing WHEN."|
  40. |                            | - Peter Cherna,                          |
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