>[X] Left Handed
>[ ] Right Handed
>What percentage of POVers are left handed?

So far:
L: 8 (38.1%)
R: 10 (47.6%)
A: 3 (14.3%)

Note: 2 of the As say they're feel more R.

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David Fontaine wrote:

> [ ] Left Handed
> [X] Right Handed
> What percentage of POVers are left handed?
>

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> [ ] Left Handed
> [x ] Right Handed
>

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[x] Right Handed
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I write with my right hand, but I use a fork with my left. Not normal
for an American.

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> What percentage of POVers are left handed?
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 17:14:38 -0600, David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet>
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>[ ] Left Handed
>[X] Right Handed


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> [ 70% ] Left Handed
> [ 30% ] Right Handed

According to some test in a science magazine.

K.K.

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[x] Right Handed

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"Kari Kivisalo" <kar### [at] kivisalonet> wrote in message
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>
> > [ 70% ] Left Handed
> > [ 30% ] Right Handed
>
> According to some test in a science magazine.
>

This at least makes some sense.

    Dominance is -never- complete. -Everybody- has some situations under
which they are more dominant with the other hand. As a kid I worked in IHOP
and everyone there learned to flip eggs in a pan without a spatula. Almost
every right handed person learned to do it with the left hand, because the
pancake spatula was in their right hand. The one guy I know didn't do it
that way was notable because he always had to switch hands to flip
eggs...switch back to flip pancakes.

     I still have to do it with my left hand.

    Oh, and... as if we didn't know... right dominant, probably 60/40... may
have been naturally left dominant but was taught to write right-handed,
Thankfully.

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[x ] Left Handed

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[ ] Left Handed
 [X] Right Handed
 What percentage of POVers are left handed?

Ambis... I think 35%

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Ofcoars.... I forgot that almost everyone is "right" handed
Get the joke?

Ambis

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David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> schreef in berichtnieuws
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> [ ] Left Handed
> [ x] Right Handed

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David Fontaine wrote:

>  [10 ] Left Handed
>  [90 ] Right Handed
>  What percentage of POVers are left handed?

Those are my answers!  (A rightie, btw!)

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mr.art wrote:
>David Fontaine wrote:
>>
>> [ ] Left Handed
>> [X] Right Handed
>
>Should I be keeping this data in the list?

No, I don't think so.
The List of Ages is nice and simple as it is now.
It is a list, not a database.

Keeping all kinds of info on the POV-Ray
users is a job for the POV-Ray USER-Base.
Unfortunately there's no such thing...

Besides, where would the line go?
There's almost infinitely many surveys you could
make, and if you put all the information into
one database you would end up with a mess of
fractioned data, which would be difficult to
handle, and be of little use.

Oh well, I've said more than enough here...

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 12:29:03 -0600, Brian & Lois Bivolcic
<biv### [at] popampacom> wrote:

>[x ] Left Handed

Both of you? :)


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> 
> [ ] Left Handed
> [X] Right Handed
> What percentage of POVers are left handed?
> 
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PoD.

P.S. Shouldn't this be on p.o.t?

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>[* ] Right Handed


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Josh English wrote:

> I write with my right hand, but I use a fork with my left. Not normal
> for an American.

It takes more fine motor skill to use the knife than the fork, so if you
hold with the fork with the left and cut with the knife with the right
and don't switch hands to eat you'd be usin' left so who cares anyway :-)

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Nieminen Juha wrote:

>   It depends on the context.
>   I use the left-handed system in povray. I type pov-scripts with both hands
> (neither one types more letters than the other in the average). IRL I'm
> right-handed.

Coordinate system has nothing to do with physical handedness of the user. And
everyone types with both hands AFAIK.

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So far:
[L] 13.2 34.7%
[A]  3   7.9%
[R] 21.8 57.4%

Of course with all the percentages and ambidexterities this is not very
accurate.

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Forgot the ones sent by e-mail:
[L] 13.2 33%
[A]  3   7.5%
[R] 23.8 59.5%

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> [ ] Left Handed
> [X] Right Handed

But I do have difficulties distinguishing left from right. 
When I was getting my drivers license I got the right direction about
50% of the time. Which is not very good, considering the choices.

sig.

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> [ ] Left Handed
> [*] Right Handed

At least I'm less clumsy with my right.

Margus

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David Fontaine wrote:

> Coordinate system has nothing to do with physical handedness of the user. And
> everyone types with both hands AFAIK.
> 
Well, for big number of people it would be more correct to say, that
with both fingers ;-)

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David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:
: Coordinate system has nothing to do with physical handedness of the user. And
: everyone types with both hands AFAIK.

  My response was intended to be more or less humoristic.

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I play the guitar, and as you may know, it's played so that the left hand
is at the neck; so the left hand has to do pretty more meticulous job than
the right hand.

  Now, this is interesting: Usually left-handed people play the guitar in
the wrong way (ie. the right hand is at the neck). This results in either a
harder job (because the strings are reversed and you can, for example, tap
the bass strings with the thumb of your right hand) or in the need of
changing the ordering of the strings (which disables you from playing other
guitars than yours; and I think that some guitars are not designed for this
and you can't reverse the ordering of the strings).
  Both of them are difficult solutions.
  However, I have a friend who is left-handed but plays the guitar as
right-handed people do. He says that it's not difficult; it's just a matter
of not starting playing the guitar in the wrong way. Once you learn the
"bad" habit of playing the guitar reversed, it's very difficult to learn it
in the other way.

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On 9 Feb 2000 04:22:58 -0500, Nieminen Juha
<war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote:

>  I play the guitar, and as you may know, it's played so that the left hand
>is at the neck; so the left hand has to do pretty more meticulous job than
>the right hand.
>
>  Now, this is interesting: Usually left-handed people play the guitar in
>the wrong way (ie. the right hand is at the neck). This results in either a
>harder job (because the strings are reversed and you can, for example, tap
>the bass strings with the thumb of your right hand) or in the need of
>changing the ordering of the strings (which disables you from playing other
>guitars than yours; and I think that some guitars are not designed for this
>and you can't reverse the ordering of the strings).
>  Both of them are difficult solutions.
>  However, I have a friend who is left-handed but plays the guitar as
>right-handed people do. He says that it's not difficult; it's just a matter
>of not starting playing the guitar in the wrong way. Once you learn the
>"bad" habit of playing the guitar reversed, it's very difficult to learn it
>in the other way.

I play the guitar as well. I must say I have a harder time with my
right hand than with my left hand. I can play some pretty fast riffs
if I happen to lay my hands on a Fender or Ibanez (oh man!) electric
but my right hand, more precisely the fingers, fail me when I have to
do it on my nylon string. Then again, I don't use the right middle
finger much because I lost my nail when I had a gangrene. Trying to
play flamenco with a finger less is, to say the least, challenging :)

I always take my guitar with me to parties. There are other people who
play the guitar but with a single exception no one but me would carry
a guitar to a party. At one such occasion the guy who held the party
had a left-handed guitar (he was, of course, left-handed) but was too,
err, well he didn't feel very well :) so he didn't play. I wanted to
switch the strings to right-handed but he asked me not to because they
were old and could break, so I gave my guitar to another player and
took the leftie one. Naturally I got to play rhythm because solos were
out of my reach with the 'wrong' handed guitar, but simple chords
(even F#!) were quite easy to strum, and that was enough for the case.

Great lefties (correct me if I'm wrong): Paul McCartney, Jimmy
Hendrix, John McLaughlin. Anyone else?


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>[x] Right Handed

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Vahur Krouverk wrote:

> David Fontaine wrote:
>
> > Coordinate system has nothing to do with physical handedness of the user. And
> > everyone types with both hands AFAIK.
> >
> Well, for big number of people it would be more correct to say, that
> with both fingers ;-)

That's me! tee hee

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David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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> [ ] Left Handed
> [ ] Right Handed
> What percentage of POVers are left handed?

What about us ambidext..wotever.... :))
I'm predominantly right but more comfortable using leftH for mouse, and also 30wpm
morse -
(clever stuff that, write wid RH while sending).

Alf

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Rudolph Velthuis wrote:
> 
> >[x] Right Handed
> 
> --
> Rudy Velthuis

Hi Rudy!

Where have been so long. Haven't seen anything of you for a long time.
:-)

Greetings,

Marc

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Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
: Paul McCartney

  I think that he can play in either way. I remember seeing one concert in
the television where he first played the "right" way, and then he changed
the guitar and played the next song the "left" way.

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> [:-)] Left Handed

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Rudolph Velthuis wrote:

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Hoi Rudy,
long time no see.
Alles goed?
Groeten.

[x] Left Handed
[x] Right Handed

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Right-handed for writing and playing the guitar, ambi for everything
else (and for these two with moderate success).


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>John McLaughlin.

The cover of Shakti has him playing righty but the picture
could be backwards...
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:09:17 -0500, Phil Clute <pcl### [at] tiacnet>
wrote:

>>John McLaughlin.
>
>The cover of Shakti has him playing righty but the picture
>could be backwards...

I said I might be wrong. It seems I am, for McLaughlin.


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I'm right handed.
Brendan Ryan

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> What percentage of POVers are left handed?

Right handed for me.

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 17:14:38 -0600, David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:
>[ ] Left Handed
>[ ] Right Handed
>What percentage of POVers are left handed?

Never believe someone who says 'it's only a 5 minute job'.

I don't know if you mean general every day handidness or if 
you want to know which coordinate system I use when POVing.

That took more than 10 seconds, and I still don't know what 
the question is yet so can't answer.

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On 9 Feb 2000 04:22:58 -0500, Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote:
>  I play the guitar, and as you may know, it's played so that the left hand
>is at the neck; so the left hand has to do pretty more meticulous job than
>the right hand.
>
>  Now, this is interesting: Usually left-handed people play the guitar in
>the wrong way (ie. the right hand is at the neck). This results in either a
>harder job (because the strings are reversed and you can, for example, tap
>the bass strings with the thumb of your right hand) or in the need of
>changing the ordering of the strings (which disables you from playing other
>guitars than yours; and I think that some guitars are not designed for this
>and you can't reverse the ordering of the strings).
>  Both of them are difficult solutions.
>  However, I have a friend who is left-handed but plays the guitar as
>right-handed people do. He says that it's not difficult; it's just a matter
>of not starting playing the guitar in the wrong way. Once you learn the
>"bad" habit of playing the guitar reversed, it's very difficult to learn it
>in the other way.

Depends what kind of music you play which hand has to do the most work.  For
a lot of the stuff I play the right hand has to do much more intricate work 
than the left, dualing banjos for example has a blue grass type bit in it that's
really demanding for the person who's doing the picking in that section.

My guitar teacher used to say pritty much what you've said here, if a kid came
in who'd never played before but was left handed he would say that they 
might as well start off the right handed way, and they'll never know the 
difference. 


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On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 00:09:43 +0100, Sigmund Kyrre Aas <as### [at] studntnuno> wrote:
>> [ ] Left Handed
>> [X] Right Handed
>
>But I do have difficulties distinguishing left from right. 
>When I was getting my drivers license I got the right direction about
>50% of the time. Which is not very good, considering the choices.

I'm exactly the same.  But I always know which way is North, most 
of my family never get mixed up between left and right, but they
never know what direction another town is in or which direction
they're facing compas wise. 

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> ----> general every day handidness <----

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>> ----> general every day handidness <----

Right handed. 

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Right-handed:  26.8  57.02%
Ambidexterous:  6.0  12.77%
Left-handed:   14.2  30.21%

With a supposedly 10% left-handed general population, this would seem to
suggest that left-handed people may indeed be smarter, as so many like
to believe. Because we all know POV users are smarter than other people,
right? :-P

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No, it means that left handed and ambidextrous people answer more surveys.

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> Ambidexterous:  6.0  12.77%
> Left-handed:   14.2  30.21%
>
> With a supposedly 10% left-handed general population, this would seem to
> suggest that left-handed people may indeed be smarter, as so many like
> to believe. Because we all know POV users are smarter than other people,
> right? :-P
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Right handed
jha### [at] sprintca

David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> a écrit dans le message :
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> [ ] Right Handed
> What percentage of POVers are left handed?
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> to believe. Because we all know POV users are smarter than other people,
> right? :-P

"You now you've been raytracing too long when you see anyone that doesn't
raytrace as a lower form of life." - someone who I can't remember the name
of

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Bill DeWitt wrote:

> No, it means that left handed and ambidextrous people answer more surveys.

"Did you know that one survey represents 900 households? This creates a
disproportionate effect. In otherwords, you get Matlock instead of Ally."
IMHO Matlock is better than Ally anyway. But you get the idea :-)

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