Poll related to handedness between physics, mathematics and chemistry people

[Dembadon]

This is now a lefty elitist thread. Righties may participate, but only as targets of our elitism.

 

[I like Serena]

I'd worry that the poll leads to a natural bias... that people who are left-handed (in the minority of the general population) are perhaps more interested to click on a thread about handedness.

Yep. That looks like the most likely bias.
I can think of a couple of other biases, but they seem, well, just less likely.

To address that we should count for instance how many people in a class with science students take their notes with their left hand...

 

[George Jones]

Right-handed. I had a left-handed Ph.D. supervisor.

To address that we should count for instance how many people in a class with science students take their notes with their left hand...

First assignment for PFers (instructors and students) for the new semester.

 

[Pythagorean]

I'd worry that the poll leads to a natural bias... that people who are left-handed (in the minority of the general population) are perhaps more interested to click on a thread about handedness.

I write with my right hand, but CAN write both with my left hand and upside-down-and-backwards with my right. (Upside-down-and-backwards is particularly useful in the teaching profession if you are facing the students desk, instead of beside them in some manner at a desk or board.)

see how the right-handers harp on our pride while in the same breath pretending to be one of us? My friends, this is the enemy!

they hath designed powertools so that ye shall poke out thine own eyes. RISE, my sinister goat-hand friends!

 

[fluidistic]

Maybe we should ask the question when members register :) Along with their studies. (of course as optional)
I feel bad the poll is biased though.
Still surprising to me.

Edit: We should maybe count only the votes where people precised what they study, etc. When people posted. Otherwise anyone can enter here and vote dishonestly without precising if they are/were really science students. I'd personally trust much more someone that post "I'm an electrical engineer student and voted left" even though he's lying, versus someone that votes without saying a word.

 

[TylerH]

If we're proposing new features, then I think it would be great to be able to ask questions to all PF users(those already registered). One could implement this by asking everyone who hasn't been asked the question when they log in.

 

[WannabeNewton]

Well, since I just recently finished my first year of university, I guess I am now qualified to vote on this poll xD. I'm a physics major and I write exclusively with my right hand as far as I can tell :)

 

[wukunlin]

I am now doing a physics MSc, typically write with the RH but if something has happened to it or I'm using it for eating etc writing with my LH instead isn't too difficult. I actually used my LF when I first started to learn to write but my primary school teacher made me switch because writing chinese characters really is easier with RH.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Right hand. There's no option for high school students, but I don't care, so I voted as a college student anyway.

 

[micromass]

Right hand. There's no option for high school students, but I don't care, so I voted as a college student anyway.

Reported for dishonesty.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Reported for dishonesty.

Praised for adherence to rules.

 

[Kholdstare]

Electrical, I don't use left or right hand to write. I have a third one for that.

 

[Number Nine]

Mathematics with the right; physics with the left.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Mathematics with the right; physics with the left.

But... but physics has mathematics *head explodes*