Scientific study reveals lefties are more intelligent.

[GrahamL]

Your always up for a bit of man love but only on the weekends

[CoombellKid]

Originally Posted by OzRob

I remember reading a long time ago the left-handers are more likely to be gay...

lol where did ya read that Playboy???

Another lefty here... and definitely a womans man! some of us cant
handle the right handed world like Jimi Hendrix.

Cheers,CS

[OzRob (Rob)]

Originally Posted by CoombellKid

lol where did ya read that Playboy???

Another lefty here... and definitely a womans man! some of us cant
handle the right handed world like Jimi Hendrix.

Cheers,CS

Ooops I have been caught out…

To legitimise my claim I did a bit of a search and came up with this. A study indicated that (gay women) have a 91 percent greater chance of being left-handed or ambidextrous than straight women, while gay men are 34 percent more likely than straight men to not be right-handed.’ (Source)

Watch out from them left-handed women…

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by renormalised

1200 people is statistically insignificant anyway. ...

Whether a given number of people is a statistically valid sample size depends on what your are trying to measure.

If 50% of the population have the characteristic for which you are testing, 1200 is probably oversampling. If it was 1% it is not enough.

Left handed people are around 8% of the population.

For left/right comparisons, 1200 is about the right size for hypothesis testing for statistics valid at the 95% confidence level. Every extra conclusion you draw means you need a bigger sample size, so I'd agree he hasn't tested enough people.

Then again, this is soft science. You can't believe anything they say.

[CoombellKid]

Originally Posted by OzRob

Ooops I have been caught out…

....and ummm errr hehehe how did I know

Cheers,CS

[dannat (Daniel)]

i went to lecture at latrobe the other day by a prof who has collected data both here ans o/seas and reffered to another study that says of all scietific research whether published in nature/science/whatever abut 50% of papers have errors in them, wheter it be form misconduct..or stat alalysis (most common)..it seems most scientists love to use facts figures but only use them to show there own point of view

[AdrianF (Adrian)]

From my experience lefties are more likely to be the trouble makers . I have a class of apprentices monday to friday and 3 of them are lefties (out of a class of 14) and they are the instigators of most of the trouble in class.
They are late 90% of the time, try to leave early 4 days out of 5, especially Friday's.
They are driving me round the bend

Adrian

I also read somewhere that 90% of statistics are made up by someone trying to protect their job.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by AdrianF

I also read somewhere that 90% of statistics are made up by someone trying to protect their job.

Statistics is the maths they use when they want to turn something that's simple and comprehensible into something horridly complicated and totally incomprehensible

[Robh (Rob)]

You didn't see the research scientist's original advertisement for the sample.
"Wanted. Left-handers for study. Only those with IQs over 140 need apply".

By the way, I'm left-handed.
Rob

[Kevnool (Kev)]

So it must mean your normal when you throw darts with your left and write with your right.

Cheers Kev.

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

I rather be ambidextrous that way I could do it with both hands

Oooohhhh......Win d the focus knob ?

[Kal (Andrew)]

From the same research by Dr Searleman:

On the downside, left-handers were not so good at remembering things. "Although left-handed people had poorer memories they were twice as good at all the problem-solving tasks," he said.

I'm right handed, and I'm always forgetting things. Then again I have pretty good problem solving abilities.

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Thank you for the post - very interesting reading on this topic.

Cheers Petra d.

[Terry B]

Originally Posted by Robh

You didn't see the research scientist's original advertisement for the sample.
"Wanted. Left-handers for study. Only those with IQs over 140 need apply".

By the way, I'm left-handed.
Rob

So this just means that all lefties can apply. The definition still stands.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by dannat

i went to lecture at latrobe the other day by a prof who has collected data both here ans o/seas and reffered to another study that says of all scietific research whether published in nature/science/whatever abut 50% of papers have errors in them, wheter it be form misconduct..or stat alalysis (most common)..it seems most scientists love to use facts figures but only use them to show there own point of view

I'd suggest that 100% of papers have an error in them, it's just that some are more significant than others. However if there is a study that suggests that scientific fraud is commonplace then I'd suggest there is a significant error in that paper!

Of course as astronomers we should be aware of a major bit of scientific fraud and misconduct - the famous work by Hubble. Firstly he used the data of Slipher without any acknowledgement (= misconduct). Secondly, apparently the data set used in the first paper was not large enough to draw the statistical conclusions he drew. To be sure he was correct and he soon afterwards had enough data to prove that, but he did publish (and was accepted) too soon.

[Ric]

Very interesting thread, I always knew I was special.

Another true lefty.

[OzRob (Rob)]

Originally Posted by Kal

From the same research by Dr Searleman:
I'm right handed, and I'm always forgetting things. Then again I have pretty good problem solving abilities.

A closet lefty???...

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Ric

Another true lefty.

I'm a right-handed true leftie.