OT? Do left-handed people's phone cords twist the other way?

[mpm]

Do left-handed people's phone cords twist the other way?

Only in the Southern Hemisphere.


-mpm

 

[Richard Henry]

I always use my right hand for the mouse because I've never taken the
trouble to learn otherwise.  If four-year olds were told to alternate, I
wonder which hand most would come to prefer.

The right-handed rifleman uses his left arm to aim, which seems trickier
than pulling the trigger.  It was the same with archers.  A lot of
right-handers use their left hand for another tricky spatial task,
threading a needle.

In WWII, controlling the attitude of a Mustang was tricky, like
threading a needle, because it could change so fast.  This would cause a
lot of fatigue on long missions.  I wonder if left-handed flying would
have been less fatiguing.

I have always used my left hand on the mouse. That frees my right
hand for the keyboard.

When I took up ice hockey, all sticks were the same - no left or tight-
handed curved blades. It just felt right for me to play "lefty" even
though I am right handed, and due to the relative shortage of left-
stick players, I stuck with it.

 

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The left
side is better at spacial things such as controlling an airplane's
attitude.

 

[T.Alan Kraus]

Okay, explain the knots.
--Winston

string theory

cheers
T.Alan

 

[Brent]

Rich Grise wrote:
[crossposted:
sci.electronics.design,rec.crafts.metalworking,rec.puzzles Please
manage followups intelligently; thanks.]
I think it's been fairly well-established that the reason your
phone cord gets twisted is because you pick up the phone with your
right hand, put it to your right ear, and when you need to take a
note, you transfer the handpiece to the left hand, imparting a
half-twist, and when the call is done, hang up with the left hand,
completing the twist.
So, should right-handed and left-handed people exchange phones
periodically? ;-)
(I know - there aren't enough left-handed people to go around. )-;
)
Cheers!
Rich
Why does a right-hander hold the phone in his right hand? Why isn't
it natural to hold the phone in the left hand so the right can dial
and be available while talking?
My left hand is more dexterous, but I prefer to dial with my right.
My left ear hears a little better, but I prefer to listen to
conversation with my right. So I pick up the phone with my left hand
to dial with my right, then switch it to my right hand to listen.
The right side is better at sequential things. Dialing and language
are sequential.
I wonder how many people are like me, dialing with the right hand,
then switching to hold the phone with the right hand.
In cramped cockpits since about 1910, the right hand has operated
elevators and ailerons. In cockpits with more room, both hands
worked together.
Then came the Airbus, where the joystick was for the pilot's left
hand.
Subsequent FAA research showed that pilots could control an
airplane more precisely and with less fatigue using the left hand
alone.
The most experienced pilots found the greatest improvement. The
left
side is better at spacial things such as controlling an airplane's
attitude.
I was sure the Airbus planes I have been on had two pilots. One on the
left and one on the right. Either could fly the plane, but the left
one was of higher rank and so usually did the flying. Are you saying
they both used their left hands to fly? Seems a little awkward for the
pilot in the righthand seat!
Paul

Nope, Airbus Left seat has throttles and joystick on left, right seat
has them on the right. Always two pilots bus like all commercial
airliners....

Yes, a pilot is a person qualified to operate the controls of an
aircraft. There could be hundreds of pilots on an Airbus.

It used to be that *the* pilot meant the captain of the aircraft. Has
that changed?

Slight difference in semantics the captain is the captain. But both
him and the First Officer are pilots of the plane hence the term co-
pilot. All the critical controls can be handled by one or the other.

Sometimes even you could have a third pilot on long nonstop flights.

the guy who flies a little cessna or a floatplane who is in seat 38B
holding a private pilots license is also a "pilot"

 

[Dogstar]

[crossposted: sci.electronics.design,rec.crafts.metalworking,rec.puzzles
Please manage followups intelligently; thanks.]

I think it's been fairly well-established that the reason your phone cord
gets twisted is because you pick up the phone with your right hand, put it
to your right ear, and when you need to take a note, you transfer the
handpiece to the left hand, imparting a half-twist, and when the call is
done, hang up with the left hand, completing the twist.

So, should right-handed and left-handed people exchange phones
periodically? ;-)

(I know - there aren't enough left-handed people to go around. )-; )

Cheers!
Rich

Anagram analysis:

A TWISTED PHONE CORD = SAD WRETCHED OPTION

--Dogstar

 

[Bill Rider]

I have always used my left hand on the mouse. That frees my right
hand for the keyboard.

When I took up ice hockey, all sticks were the same - no left or tight-
handed curved blades. It just felt right for me to play "lefty" even
though I am right handed, and due to the relative shortage of left-
stick players, I stuck with it.

I wish I'd taken the trouble to learn to bat left in baseball, so I'd
know how it compared. I didn't notice a preference swinging an ax.

Decades ago a scientist said 70% of chimps were right-handed. More
recently another scientist noticed those were zoo chimps. In the wild,
he found 70% left-handed.

Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but
only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC. He thought this was because lefties were
prone to fatal accidents. I think it's because the way a person thinks
influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=3453
The leading eye may tell more than the dominant hand. Here's a nude
silhouette that's supposed to show which side of the viewer's brain is
dominant. The last time I looked, she turned clockwise. Today she
seems to swing both ways. I must be in an ambidextrous state of mind.

Could she be responsible for all those twisted cords?

 

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I wish I'd taken the trouble to learn to bat left in baseball, so I'd
know how it compared.  I didn't notice a preference swinging an ax.

Decades ago a scientist said 70% of chimps were right-handed.  More
recently another scientist noticed those were zoo chimps.  In the wild,
he found 70% left-handed.

Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but
only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC.  He thought this was because lefties were
prone to fatal accidents.  I think it's because the way a person thinks
influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=3453
The leading eye may tell more than the dominant hand.  Here's a nude
silhouette that's supposed to show which side of the viewer's brain is
dominant.  The last time I looked, she turned clockwise.  Today she
seems to swing both ways. I must be in an ambidextrous state of mind.

Could she be responsible for all those twisted cords?

I thought it was Robert Goulet messing with your stuff,
but he just died. Has anyone noticed twisted cords *recently*?

 

[Willem]

Bill wrote:
) Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but
) only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC. He thought this was because lefties were
) prone to fatal accidents. I think it's because the way a person thinks
) influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

How about being forced to right-handedness, in schools and stuff ?


SaSW, Willem
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[Michael A. Terrell]

Okay, explain the knots.

It's very simple. It's proof that you're really twisted.


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[Bill Rider]

Bill wrote:
) Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but
) only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC. He thought this was because lefties were
) prone to fatal accidents. I think it's because the way a person thinks
) influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

How about being forced to right-handedness, in schools and stuff ?


SaSW, Willem

I've wondered about that. I think the statistical research was done in
the 1980s. The scientist found a linear relationship between
right-handedness and age. If early schooling accounted for it, the
acceptance of left-handedness must have evolved gradually. I *think*
instead it happened pretty fast.

My grandfather, who learned to write in the 1890s, was left-handed in
everything but penmanship. I learned to write left-handed because that
was my drawing hand. Taking notes in high school, I discovered that the
right hand is best for penmanship because it uses the side of the brain
that's not easily distracted; that's why I dial a phone better with my
right hand. (I still write almost entirely left-handed.)

My grandfather was notorious for dozing during sermons, but when those
who had been awake questioned him after a service, they would find he
remembered more than they did. Typical of a left-hander, he would think
of the big picture as he listened, and that could lead to daydreaming
and dozing. Still, by thinking of the big picture, he could retain more
than those who had listened with a one-track mind.

If students pay attention to every word a teacher says and still have
trouble, that can make a teacher feel supremely authoritative. If a
student like my grandfather was obviously thinking about other things
but seemed to know everything the teacher had said, some teachers could
feel disparaged. I think that's a reason many teachers quietly resent
left-handers.

 

[Lew Hartswick]

http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=3453
The leading eye may tell more than the dominant hand. Here's a nude
silhouette that's supposed to show which side of the viewer's brain is
dominant. The last time I looked, she turned clockwise. Today she
seems to swing both ways. I must be in an ambidextrous state of mind.

Could she be responsible for all those twisted cords?

You know the first time I looked at that I could olny see it
revolving clockwise, this time it also went CW when I first
looked, I then glanced away and when I came back it reversed.
Curiouser and curiouser.
...lew...

 

[JosephKK]

I wish I'd taken the trouble to learn to bat left in baseball, so I'd
know how it compared. I didn't notice a preference swinging an ax.

Decades ago a scientist said 70% of chimps were right-handed. More
recently another scientist noticed those were zoo chimps. In the wild,
he found 70% left-handed.

Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but
only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC. He thought this was because lefties were
prone to fatal accidents. I think it's because the way a person thinks
influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=3453
The leading eye may tell more than the dominant hand. Here's a nude
silhouette that's supposed to show which side of the viewer's brain is
dominant. The last time I looked, she turned clockwise. Today she
seems to swing both ways. I must be in an ambidextrous state of mind.

Could she be responsible for all those twisted cords?

Actually i expect that if we can get past all our training prejudices it
will turn out to be ab 1/3 lefty, 1/3 ambidextrous, and 1/3 righties.
Back when i was i grade school i could write with both hands.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

JosephKK said:

Back when i was i grade school i could write with both hands.

There are times when I regret the custom of not commenting on the spelling,
punctuation and grammar of Usenet articles.

 

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JosephKK said:



There are times when I regret the custom of not commenting on the spelling,
punctuation and grammar of Usenet articles.

He didn't say he could type with both hands.

 

[Ed Huntress]

JosephKK said:

That must have been tough. I guess you had a hard time with short pencils,
eh?

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

JosephKK said:



There are times when I regret the custom of not commenting on the spelling,
punctuation and grammar of Usenet articles.

Are you saying that he can't type with two hands?

 

[Rich Grise]

http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=3453
The leading eye may tell more than the dominant hand. Here's a nude
silhouette that's supposed to show which side of the viewer's brain is
dominant. The last time I looked, she turned clockwise. Today she
seems to swing both ways. I must be in an ambidextrous state of mind.

When she first popped up, she was turning counterclockwise. But by
concentrating, I was able to turn her around, i.e., reverse her. Then,
with a little more mental effort, I turned her around again. It's
an interesting feeling, somewhat similar to eyestrain.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[krw]

Actually i expect that if we can get past all our training prejudices it
will turn out to be ab 1/3 lefty, 1/3 ambidextrous, and 1/3 righties.
Back when i was i grade school i could write with both hands.

I can't write with either, so it's a good thing the PC was invented.

 

[Richard Henry]

Bill wrote:

) Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but
) only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC.  He thought this was because lefties were
) prone to fatal accidents.  I think it's because the way a person thinks
) influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

How about being forced to right-handedness, in schools and stuff ?

My father was forced to learn to write right-handed as a child. As an
adult, he was encouraged by a golf pro to try some left handed clubs.
By the end of the round he was using the only two right-handed clubs
he took along - a wedge and a putter.