Girls are right-handed, boys are left-handed

[charisstoma]

Girls are right-handed, boys are left-handed

http://www.grunge.com/30608/cats-purr-10-feline-facts/s/girls-are-right-handed-boys-are-left-handed/ page 7

Right. Since we all need a little recovery time after realizing Snuggles probably wants to conquer the world, here's a fun bit of trivia that's made us realize we should have been scientists. Specifically, we should have been the kind of scientists that get this kind of funding. Psychologists at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland asked themselves whether cats were right-pawed or left-pawed, and you've wondered it, too. We certainly have. They wanted to see which paw cats favored, so they gave 42 different cats a jar with a bit of tuna in it. The only way they could get it out was to reach in and, well, fish it out — when they did, they'd show which paw was dominant.

There were 21 males and 21 females in the test, and 20 of the males were left-handed, with one ambidextrous over-achiever. Twenty of the females were right-handed, and one girl, in true cat spirit, refused to conform to any human societal expectations.

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Comments

[frogs_of_war]

I was just talking to my husband about "handedness" in animals. It's about 50-50, but we hadn't heard that gender might be a factor. He said that some scientist theorized that humans are more right handed due to language (the left brain being more developed than the right), but that hasn't seemed to hurt him (left handed, with a left handed mother and grandfather) in the language department.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

My grandfather was left handed, my daughter and sister left handed, and another sister is ambidextrous. Interestingly, which came out of my daughter being premie with an evaluation follow up when she was older, she is right footed. Unusual the evaluator said for a person to be left handed and right footed. Genetics are interesting.

I found the humorous comments on the results, the overachiever male and the female who probably sat there looking from the jar to the human and back to get the human to do the work. Obviously she won since her data was not listed.