I suspect that this has been surveyed before. (Apologies). Anyway research, would suggest that mtfs are significantly more likely to be left handed than the general male population which is about 11%. (and more likely also to be employed in electronics/software or similar.) I realize that there are flaws in this data gathering exercise but hey. I missed out ambidextrous but did say "preferred" just to cover myself.

When I was still working in the motor trade I quickly developed the ability to use either hand for most tasks as vehicle manufacturers can be quite unfriendly to the idea that space needs to be left between lumpy objects so that normal servicing can take place.  These days though I'm back with being primarily right handed.

Right-handed.

Quote(and more likely also to be employed in electronics/software or similar.

I hadn't heard this before. Interesting. I'm not currently employed in that field, but I do that kind of stuff as a hobby, and am proficient enough at it that everyone I've ever known has told me I should be doing it for a living, as well as an aptitude test saying I should be an engineer.

Right-handed here too But I can use my left hand for quite a few things. Not fully ambidextrous but useful.

I don't work in Electronics, but I do work for a Web Hosting Company/Datacenter in Server Administration

I was fully ambidextrous until age sixteen when I broke my left wrist. My degree was in psychology but I worked in software and hardware for 32 years.

I use both a lot, but slightly favor the left.
Mariah

Lefty. I think a lot of left handed people went through some period of ambidextrousness (not sure that's a real word). I'm an artist and a lot of my colleagues that can draw tend to be left handed too.

Right Handed and in IT... Well was until my income ceased about a year ago... Still trying to resume  an income stream and in my industry of choice

L Katy

Right handed

I favor my left hand, but I'm ambidextrous. I work in IT and I use my mouse with my right hand. It's easier since I'm using other workstations all the time and I don't want to change it around. Plus I can use the mouse and write something at the same time and this blows people away sometimes. For some reason I only use the phone in my left ear. I can't stand using it with my right ear.

Right handed and a geeky math loving EE who also does IT.

I am ambidextrous in some things such as soldering and intricate work as well as home and auto projects. I am however a left handed bats...err woman? in cricket.

Right handed and...*drumroll* in the IT field. Or at least in school for it.

Though I mean, I use my left everything as well, writing being the exception.

Right handed.  I have a degree in EE although I joined the Army and never worked in that field.


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Ambidextrous, but it kinda depends on what I'm doing to some degree, some things I do better left and other things I do better right

Quote from: pollypagan on March 24, 2015, 05:15:18 AM
I missed out ambidextrous but did say "preferred" just to cover myself.

Can still add ambidextrous to the poll if you like

Quote from: V M on March 24, 2015, 09:49:17 AM
Ambidextrous, but it kinda depends on what I'm doing to some degree, some things I do better left and other things I do better right

Can still add ambidextrous to the poll if you like

My rationale was that having a preference has fairly clear definition whereas ambidextrous, where trying to define equivalence, is somewhat more difficult to discern.

I favor my right hand slightly, but am largely ambidextrous.  I don't do some things as well using my left hand, but that's more of a practice issue (I practiced those things more with my right) than one of pure dexterity.  The propensity towards electronics/software fields thing is really interesting.  I'm a software engineer, but I also love building electronics projects.

I get that but the point I think she was trying to make and that I would make is that some of us do prefer to be ambidextrous. I prefer to do things with either or even both at the same time and trying put me into a box just doesn't fit which is why I didn't post I wrote my response instead of picking left or right for the pull above. I use them interchangeably. I can depend on both when the situation arises.
Mariah

Quote from: pollypagan on March 24, 2015, 10:06:40 AM
My rationale was that having a preference has fairly clear definition whereas ambidextrous, where trying to define equivalence, is somewhat more difficult to discern.

Interesting I never really thought about it but upon review I use R and L interchangably.  I steer my truck 'almost' exclusively L unless it is just a matter of comfort, same for shaving, picking things up, using tools, everything.  Except one thing, I write only with my right, hmmmm maybe I'll learn to change that, it may just turn into a nice Thelemic exercise (a Liber read but never performed).   Dani

I scribble(can't call it writing unless its legible) with my right hand, most other things is just by whichever one is most convenient.

I'm a lefty, but a complete imbecile with computers.

I can rewire an electric guitar fifty ways without thinking though.