[net.misc] ? Handed Programmers?

larry (10/08/82)

	I don't know if anybody else has noticed this --there seems to
be a disportionate amount of LEFT handed people that are programmers. 
Has anybody else noticed this?  Anybody care to comment why this might
be true?


		Larry Marek
		 Bell Labs
		  Naperville

rwg (10/10/82)

Right-handed people use the left side of their brains more;
Left-handed people use the right side of their brains more;

That is, only left-handed people are in their "right" minds.

edwards (10/10/82)

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uicsovax!edwards    Oct  9 20:36:00 1982


Your all wrong!  Right handers are smarter!!!!

ech (10/10/82)

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whuxlb!ech    Oct  9 23:05:00 1982

I can't tell you WHY a disproportionate number of programmers are lefties,
but I can fuel the fire: lefties make up something like 10% of the general
population, but it has long been noted that the typical MIT graduating class
is 20-30% lefties.

As to whether lefties are smarter, is being a hacker, or subjecting oneself
to an MIT education SMART????

=Ned Horvath (rightie MIT '70)=

pedalman (10/11/82)

If the argument about left-handed people being in their "right" minds is
to be believed, then I must conclude that no good programmers are left
handed, since, I have never met  a "good" programmer that was fully in
his right mind.

tim (10/11/82)

Richard Getlak recently stated that left-handed people
use the right sides of their brains more. This is not
quite true; many lefties are left-brain dominant, and
many have mixed dominance. However, most right-handers
are left-brain dominant. This demonstrates irrefutably
that left-handed people are more mixed up than righties.

			I type my name with my right hand,
			Tim Maroney ( tim@unc )

jcw (10/12/82)

References: ucbarpa.2201

For an interesting overview of the subject, see the
article in Newsweek/August 30, 1982 on page 62.
To interest you in looking for the article, let me
quote: "Researchers have now determined that the culprit
is probably testosterone..."

coletti (10/12/82)

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uiucdcs!coletti    Oct 12 12:13:00 1982

Just goes to show that Computer Science attracts more than its share
of sinister types...

reid (10/12/82)

I am a right-handed programmer who at least can spell....

You're all wrong:  all generalizations are false!

Glenn Reid