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I'm left handed with a lot of aunts

That seems a bit bizarre.  But yes I am left handed. 

Now I have a lot of aunts but they are on my biological father's side.  On the maternal side I am the oldest child of an oldest child so even the one aunt on that side doesn't count under his criteria (previous children of a (grand)parent impacting the child).

I always think this sort of research is botched, or at least poorly conducted, to be honest, because there's always bound to be plenty of exceptions to these sort of rules.
Also, it's plain logic that the larger sample of people there are, the more likely it is for one of them to have some sort of "coded anomaly" compared to the rest of that given sample. Yeah.
But I'm right-handed.
:]

I have lots of aunts on both sides and I believe, a lot of female cousins.

But I find it very interesting because I thought right-handed people outnumbered us southpaws by quite a bit. but this poll is showing otherwise and backing up the study. Of course that could change as more people vote.

I'm right handed, but my mother and both maternal aunts are left handed.. My maternal uncle is right handed.. My maternal grandmother was also a lefty...

  I'm right handed.  One set of cousins are left handed, with one of them dyslexic like I am.  The teachers back in the 60's had him write right handed as with the normal procedure.  Big mistake, he has stuttering problems to this day.  Hey, teacher:  Leave those southpaws alone!  "Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd adaptation .    President Obama is a southpaw, I don't see anybody complain about that!
  Joelene

Quote from: JasonRX on December 27, 2011, 07:34:44 PM
I always think this sort of research is botched, or at least poorly conducted, to be honest, because there's always bound to be plenty of exceptions to these sort of rules.
Also, it's plain logic that the larger sample of people there are, the more likely it is for one of them to have some sort of "coded anomaly" compared to the rest of that given sample. Yeah.
But I'm right-handed.
:]

I agree. True or not, I am not of fan of these sorts of studies. I'm usually in the exception to rules and in this case it's no different. I am right handed. My ring finger is also quite a bit longer than my index finger. According to all these studies, I should be a super macho man. It makes me feel worse about myself somehow.

Quote from: Joelene9 on December 27, 2011, 08:48:34 PM
  I'm right handed.  One set of cousins are left handed, with one of them dyslexic like I am.  The teachers back in the 60's had him write right handed as with the normal procedure.  Big mistake, he has stuttering problems to this day.  Hey, teacher:  Leave those southpaws alone!  "Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd adaptation .    President Obama is a southpaw, I don't see anybody complain about that!
  Joelene

They tried that with me too.

I'm kind of ambidextrous.
I "write" (if it could be celled writing ;D I can draw nice, but writing was always terrible) right hand
But do lot of things like left handed and for lot thing use hand which is nearer ^-^

Lefty, lotta aunts.

Quote from: Medusa on December 28, 2011, 07:26:32 AM
I'm kind of ambidextrous.
I "write" (if it could be celled writing ;D I can draw nice, but writing was always terrible) right hand
But do lot of things like left handed and for lot thing use hand which is nearer ^-^

Same for me. When I was younger, I did everything left-handed until my father made fun of me for it. So I forced myself to write right-handed, but I still do most everything else left-handed.

Entirely ambidextrous. Just depends which hand I learned to do something with as to which hand I use.

I can write with my left, but it's much slower 'cause I didn't learn how to do that till high school. So I pretty much always use my right unless I'm showing off.

75% right handed, yet some stuff works much easier/better when using my left hand. Mostly artsy modelling stuff...

My ex is right handed only, our son is fully left handed.

Axelle

I'm right-handed, with no blood-related maternal aunts.

Looks like I'm an outlier.

Most of my dad's side of the family is left-handed though, now that I think about it...

Right handed

I don't know what a distinctive ridged finger print looks like so I have no idea if I have this. My ring finger is longer than my index. It's almost the same height as my middle finger.

My mom has a sister, but I don't know her. My grandparents raised me. My grand mahas 4 brothers and no sisters so does my grandfather. So I guess I have way more uncles than aunts.

I was an only child.

Left handed, ring finger longer than index, 2 maternal aunts, 3 paternal, I'm predominantly lesbian, am firstborn and have a younger sister.

(Actually.... I write left handed only, throw right handed only and use a screwdriver or hammer with either hand)

AFAIK the ratio of left to right handed in the general public is 1:7      in MTF's it is close to 50/50

So far this poll has proven the left handed theory wrong, And the theory about aunt's being predominant in the family seems to be too close to consider true. Given the large amount of transgendered people who visit here, I think this is a pretty descent group to see if these theories they come up with hold true. So I am truly fascinated by the results. ^_^

I am left-handed.

Quote from: Keaira on December 28, 2011, 06:18:18 PM
So far this poll has proven the left handed theory wrong, And the theory about aunt's being predominant in the family seems to be too close to consider true. Given the large amount of transgendered people who visit here, I think this is a pretty descent group to see if these theories they come up with hold true. So I am truly fascinated by the results. ^_^

a predisposition as is discribed in the study isn't an absolute. while the sample size is still too small consider that in the wildtype population it's a 90/10 right handed slant. whereas these poll thus far shows somthing closer to a 50/50 split If we tested 1000 indivduals and it still came up 50/50 that would be considered very statistically significant trend even if it wasn't an absolute truth.

I'm left handed and I have 2 maternal aunts (and more maternal uncles), but I mostly interact with one of my aunts. I also have 2 older brothers, 1 is my Dad's from another marriage and the other is my Mom's.

Other sites don't nearly get that close of a ratio when this question is asked.

I'm mostly left-handed with 1 maternal aunt and 2 paternal aunts.  My maternal aunt is lesbian.

Right-handed. I'm pretty much helpless if I'm allowed to use just my left hand. :-X

That's interesting. I'm right-handed, but an unusual number of my family members are left-handed.

Right handed!

I'm right handed.

Years ago I conducted this research and found 30% of people were left handed.  The general population had 15% of genetic males are left handed.  Research has found left handed people are more prone to be Tg.  In fact in Europe 10% of Tg population tends to be mildly autistic.  I am also mildly autistic.  All my research to disprove I am TG has in fact supports my feelings.

I had a hypothesis that since more males are left handed than females I expected tg population to approach female left handedness which is 5% of general population. 

I have found that left handedness, mild autism, depression, anxiety,  abuse as a child, loneliness, ability to hide one's feelings were common place.  Some of older folks even got married and had children.

Actually FTM should not vote on separate survey. 

I have one aunt and no brothers or sisters. Dad is a lefty while mom is a righty. I am quasi-ambidexterous; I use my right hand for a lot of things but I also use my left hand to do certain things.

I'm right-handed but I don't feel that awkward using my left hand for a lot of things.

Quote from: wendy on January 01, 2012, 05:36:20 PM
left handedness, mild autism, depression, anxiety,  abuse as a child, loneliness, ability to hide one's feelings

Wow that fits me perfectly.

A few thoughts from this (mostly) left-handed person who has done some looking in to the research on handedness (laterality).

From the full population, if there is no cultural hostility to left-handedness and hasn't been for 2+ generations, about 10% of the population is left-handed.  It is, however, much more accurate to view handedness on a spectrum, rather than a binary matter.  Most left-handed people don't do absolutely everything left-handed (I throw right-handed, for instance), and even many right-handed people don't do everything that way either.

There does seem to be a genetic component, but it is neither terribly strong, nor is it simple like blue eyes vs. brown eyes.  Among lefties, left-handed women tend to be more strongly left-handed than leftie men.  There may be somewhat fewer (percentagewise) left-handed women than men.  It's debated as to whether this is nature or because of the acculturation of women.

Various realms of activity show increased fractions of lefties -- math, natural science, art, music, and sports.  The increase is higher the higher you go in each field, i.e., only somewhat over 10% at the undergraduate math level, high teens/low 20s for graduate students, mid-upper 20s for postdoctoral, and about 30% for the senior professional mathematicians.  30% seems the general highest level, and is also common to sports and science (at least). 

The preceding is why a particular study I read that claimed correlation between left-handedness and homosexuality was a piece of crap.  In order to have a large enough homosexual population to look in to handedness, the authors checked memebers of a lesbian volleyball league.  Found increased (over general population) percentage of lefties.  But they ignored entirely that the same thing would have happened if they'd checked a straights-only volleyball league.

i tend to be good with both, slightly better with right one (better writing mostly)

Predominately right handed with just a touch of ambidextrous trying to emulate my left handed mom.  Most TSs that I have met are righties. So far only 1 lefty

I can almost buy the stats indicating  that the ratio is different for TSs vs the general population. THat is a lot more plausible than transsexuals being predominately left handed.

I think the same rationale can also be applied to dyslexia. It seems like the majority of TS's I know are or believe they are, to some degree. How much vs the general population? I smell a Masters thesis  :)

Right-handed.
But there are some stuff I do - only - as a left-handed... throw/catch a ball, handle a broom/hockey stick/shovel.
(Eating with spoon, writing, drawing etc. - these all go by right hand.)

Only known left-handed was one of my grandmother's brother - but he was forced to use his left. (Till he fell down of a tree, ended up with a crippled right hand - so had to use the left, again.) I do not know about any left-handed, maybe they were all forced to use the other hand. Old, idiot habit.

im left handed

I suppose I'm right-handed, but I do a lot of stuff with my leftie as well (open bottles, use the knife), and I can write with both fairly well.

Definitely left handed although I do some things with my right hand...  :-* The one that always made people laugh growing up was playing goalie in hockey with my glove on the right hand and stick in the left hand then play baseball (hate that sport) with the glove on my left hand and throw with my right. I'm left footed too. Do I get extra points???

I want to know what the distinctive ridged fingerprints are because I think that would be much much more telling because there are no socio-cultural impacts on fingerprints for most of us versus handedness where there is.

Both  :)

I'm left handed.

Left-handed

Quote from: pebbles on December 29, 2011, 06:06:29 AM
a predisposition as is discribed in the study isn't an absolute. while the sample size is still too small consider that in the wildtype population it's a 90/10 right handed slant. whereas these poll thus far shows somthing closer to a 50/50 split If we tested 1000 indivduals and it still came up 50/50 that would be considered very statistically significant trend even if it wasn't an absolute truth.

I agree. What it does highlight for me is that even on the forum polls the percentage of left-handers beats the 90/10 ratio. It looks like it will end up being a statistically significant correlation. The questions I have is in regard to left-handedness and transsexualism, but also handedness controlled for by sexual orientation.

We lefties are an interesting group. Something is going on, though no one has really pegged down what it means when handedness is correlated with seemingly unrelated features.

I'm about as left as left handed gets. My Mom says that when I was a baby she knew right away because I'd hold everything with my left hand and if something were put in my left I'd switch it. Only thing I do that's actually right handed is use a computer mouse.

No offense but people cling to the most ridiculous stuff to get validation...

I ->-bleeped-<-ing hate Ponies and I watched Spartacus.

Bite me.

I'm a lefty, but will very rarely use my right hand.

I have five aunts, two maternal and three paternal. Though I'm the only child my parents had, I was the second of my moms kids.

I'm a righty. The only thing I do left handed is swing a baseball bat.

Lol, another sinister southpaw here. ;D

No maternal aunts though, my mother was an only child. Something interesting about the original article struck me though. I doubt it has any significance to anything, but:

QuoteHe said that a developing foetus could be affected by how many previous pregnancies the mother had gone through, and by the sex of the previous foetuses that had developed in the womb.

My mother had a miscarriage with a daughter before giving birth to me.

Anyway. I'm pretty sure my left handedness skipped a generation. My mother was right handed, but my grandmother was left handed. My mother always said I was a lot like my grandmother. I never really knew her though, she died when I was young.

Anthropological studies have shown that, among stone tool-making pre-historic cultures, the frequency of left-handed strikes on the tools was about equal to right-handed strikes.

This could lead to the conclusion our ancestors were ambidextrous, or more likely, there were about as many lefties as righties.

But today, about 5/6ths of the human population are right-handed.  Does this mean that Nature has selected against lefties?

More likely superstitious people than nature.

Left-handedness has been associated with evil for plenty of folks. The word 'sinister' is derived from the Latin word sinistra, which means 'left'. Wouldn't surprise me if left handed people were treated much the same as witches and put to death for their wicked lefty ways. Leaving the way clear for right handed people to take over the world!

Lefthanded and lots of auts and only female cousins.

Quote from: Sephirah on April 21, 2012, 01:44:25 AM
More likely superstitious people than nature.

Left-handedness has been associated with evil for plenty of folks. The word 'sinister' is derived from the Latin word sinistra, which means 'left'. Wouldn't surprise me if left handed people were treated much the same as witches and put to death for their wicked lefty ways. Leaving the way clear for right handed people to take over the world!

Are you suggesting that there exists an "evil right hand conspiracy"?

Quote from: Jamie D on April 21, 2012, 04:14:27 AM
Are you suggesting that there exists an "evil right hand conspiracy"?

No. No I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. I'm really not. *looks for the black, unmarked cars - right hand drive, naturally*

In fact, I was never here.

I'm left-handed and so is my Dad, but we are the only two in our immediate family who are. Um, he's not trans, lol.