Science fair project

[jedi_penguin]

My sixth grade daughter is doing her science fair project on handedness, specifically on whether a planned reliance on one one hand carries through to instinctual actions. She needs as large a data pool as possible, so I'm begging all you guys to take this and pimp far and wide. Thank you.

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Research Projects!

[goaliepam]

Happy to help out with a research project and clicked on all the nice clicky boxes. I'm working on a research project myself for Psychology 280 - Research Methods so happy to help out a fellow research scientist in training. ;)

Re: Research Projects!

[jedi_penguin]

Hee! Brain scientists of the world unite! That sounds like a bad 1950's sci fi movie...

[shutthef_up]

I can actually write with either hand, though the right is easier.

I've done serious bodily damage to the right half of my body from time to time, requiring me to use my left hand for many things.

I can write, shoot and do many things with my left hand. The only thing I do almost exclusively with my right is, er, write.

[jedi_penguin]

My husband used to be HIGHLY left-hand dominant. He had brain surgery when he was thirty, however, and he's been ambidextrous ever since. Um... hurray for brain cancer? Seriously, it's amazing how the brain can be retrained after injury. The human brain is simply astounding.

[malnpudl]

I'm cross-dominant: right-handed, left-eyed. My dexterity tests very high with both hands, though higher with my right. I've been told by someone who was purported to be an expert in such things (an aptitude test researcher) that I may originally have been left-handed but was conditioned to right-handedness. I asked my mother and she said that nobody ever coached me one way or the other, but that I was very observant from a very young age, so I suppose it's possible that my use of my right hand may have been imitative. Hard to say.

[jedi_penguin]

I took a course in developmental psychology when I was in college and was told the exact same thing! (Though my dexterity is NOT high...)

[jedi_penguin]

Wonder if it's normal / average / more frequent for right-handed people to cross left arm and thumb over the right...

That seems to be the case, which just seems weird and backwards to me. I'll be just as interested in what her research turns up as she is!

[empressvesica]

Hooray for helping science! :D