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For the left-handed people of the world, life isn’t easy. Throughout much of history, massive stigmas attached to left-handedness meant they were singled out as everything from unclean to witches. In Medieval times, writing with your left-hand was a surefire way to be accused of being possessed by the devil; after all, the devil himself was thought to be a lefty. The world has gotten progressively more accepting of left-handed folk, but there are still some undeniable bummers associated with a left-handed proclivity: desks and spiral notebooks pose a constant battle, scissors are all but impossible to use and–according to some studies–life-expectancy might be lower than for right-handed people.
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The pages in spiral notebooks have backs as well as fronts.
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The study showing shorter life spans for lefties is probably innacurate: http://marginalrevolution.com/margin...die-young.html
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Which is why some left-handed people use them back-to-front.
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...which puts the holes on the wrong side of the paper - at least in the spiral notebooks that I'm familiar with. Some lefties, including myself, are apparently anal enough for that to actually be a deterrent to using a notebook backward.
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A lot of right-handers use both sides of each note sheet so it's hard to see what big difference it makes. There's no "right side" for the holes, actually.
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I'm positive some of my teachers would not have accepted papers that were "backward." Nor would they have accepted journal assignments with backward-reading books.
There is a right side to the holes if they are going in a binder, if they are written in English. Back to the OP, the headline should be, why aren't more people left handed? It's a pretty interesting question, really. Last edited by erwins; 24 September 2013 at 01:04 PM. |
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I catch your drift.
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About that very good question: Why aren't there more lefties? (I always slightly disliked the word "southpaw". It's only south if you face west!) There was an interesting (if probably already debunked but I'm not in a looking up mood tonight) hypothesis about hand-to-hand combat, sports, etc. The basic idea was that there was an advantage to fighting with the not-species-domninant hand but only up to a certain point. It was an interesting analysis.
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Do they really have no problem, or is it not a big bother because it doesn't always come up? If you have a page and a half of notes, a righty only writes on the back for half a page. Lefties get a whole page of spiral binding to the wrist/arm. In any event, lefty writing mechanics tend to be different enough from righty ones that it could account for a difference in how annoying the spiral is.
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I see. I don't use spiral notebooks very often. Too springy! Plus it just seems like a waste of good wire.
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I used to use spiral notebooks for note-taking during class or other functions, but would continuously use one, writing on both sides, until it was full, so both sides did get used with the same frequency.
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Lefthanders often use a very different hand position from those used by righthanded people. See the OP article illustration of Obama signing his name. IME, this hand position is more likely to cause problems with spiral notebooks (or three-ring binders and some bound notebooks, for that matter).
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I still test every pen for smearing before use. If it fails the test I give it away.
ETA: The hooked-hand position some lefties use may be an attempt to avoid smearing, or a reaction to a teacher's urging "don't cover your work!", as mine did, during writing lessons. Short of writing right-to-left or detaching my hand from my arm, that was as close as I could get to not covering my work. |
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I know the research concerning life span has been questioned, however, a number of years ago I read something indicating that lefties recover better from strokes--has that also been debunked? I find the things that cause the most trouble are the ones no one thinks about, like doorknobs. Seaboe |
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Trouble is a subjective thing, IMO. The smaller the spiral notebook, the more problematic it becomes for me - which is why I tend to use legal pads instead.
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