Talk:Right-handed

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There should be a list of famous right-handers like there's one of lefties and ambis, otherwise it's unfair. --203.173.8.12 02:28, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Why is not a big deal to be right-handed, yet so many people make a hype about left-handedness? Right-handedness is assumed to be more common, but on Wikipedia (ironically enough) it looks like there are more left-handed people than right-handed. In the end, I guess being right-handed is less common than left-handed. Polarizing effect. -Lehla This is one of the stupidest statements I have ever heard, Lehla! How stupid can you be to say that. To provide a semi-complete list of all the right-handed people would take up terabytes of server space!

THAT MADE SENSE!!! --Deleted the famous list... absolutely stupid. There are so many people who are right handed (90+ percent of the population) that it makes no sense to have such a list.

Obviously - I assumed the post of 203.173.8.12 02:28, 12 September 2005 (UTC) was a joke. It's like having a list of heterosexuals, or a list of all the people who have not won academy awards or who have not been convicted of war crimes.

Why is the left-handed article longer than the right-handed one??? 154.20.186.68 03:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

dunno, i would have thought they both would be equal indepth of information and length.. if we checked the authors hand usage i bet most of them are left handers.. the way i read the left-handed article is as left handed people have superhuman powers like the mutants in the x-men and right handed people are the average joe with neaderthal like minds. maybe we should segregate left and right handers, maybe we should teach our children to hate and distrust people who use the opposite hand as themselves... haha stupid, people are stupid.. 75.15.247.159 21:46, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

1 but why, oh why?!
2 No Proof?
3 Article
4 German
5 Theories explaining handedness
6 section redirected
7 2007-02-9 Automated pywikipediabot message

[edit] but why, oh why?!

The article states that 90% of people are right-handed, but doesn't go on to explain why this trait seems to be dominant...

Andreala 16:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)hay

[edit] No Proof?

"Many people deem right-handed people to be "intellectually challenged" though there is no proof of this." If there is no proof of this statement, then I think it should be removed from the page. Also, this article really needs to be expanded! Have you seen the article of left-handed people?!

[edit] Article

I'll have a decent go at this tomorrow. The idea of fairness make me laugh. It's an encyclopedia article, not a game of snakes and ladders. It's a bit like saying if you're going to make a list of all the monarchs of England, you should make a list of all the people who have never been monarchs of England. If you have a list of left-handed, right-handed and cross-dominant people then you basically have a list of all the people in the world. Spectacularly pointless.

I'll try and dig up some research but basically there is almost zero chance of getting a common consensus.

Mglovesfun 00:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] German

I've found the link for a definition or Rechts (right) in german, but I can't understand it well enough to put it on this page : Here is the link you're looking for.

Mglovesfun

[edit] Theories explaining handedness

I notice that the theories explaining right-hand dominance are on the handedness page, the left-handed page and not the right-handed page. Because it's so well written, it's tempting to just copy and paste the whole thing here, but then you end up with the same section on three different pages. And yet, apart from omitting the whole section all together, what else can we do? If anything, a separate page of 'theories of handedness' might be better, to which all three articles could refer to

Mglovesfun 15:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)