Monday, November 12, 2018

What are some of the ways you can distinguish between left and right handed persons, besides Writing?


I think ‘Writing’ should not be considered as the primary criterion in identifying the ‘handedness’ of a human. Writing is an acquired skill and it depends on which hand you started training and learnt.
Similarly you can train yourself to write with a specific hand, do normal chores like brushing, shaving, open door with a specific hand, etc.
Like the way, I trained myself to eat, shake-hand, serving food, religious rituals, etc with my right hand.
One’s “natural”, “reflex”, “physical” actions should distinguish that person as a left-handed or right!
  • If I throw a dagger/stone at you, would you rise your left hand or right hand to block?
  • If I offer you a bag of apples, will you pick with your left/right?
  • When you sneeze, do you use your left/right hand to cover your nose? In some cases, this can be trained. I pick my nose with my right hand because my left hand would be busy most times like writing :-) Just kidding.
  • I set/comb my hair with left hand.
  • In an action that needs strength like using spanner for unscrewing/screwing, do you use left/right?
Some websites talk about other ways like
  • “which thumb is on up side when you interlock your fingers?”,
  • “which palm is up when you clap while applauding?”,
  • “which hand is up when you hold hands on your back?”
  • “with which eye do you wink?”
I don’t believe in the above stuff.


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