Day Twenty-Five

(Really day 24)

Today I had my classmates take a survey having to do with people who are left handed/ambidextrous. In total I had 46 people take these surveys. Here's the survey I had them take:

1. Which hand is your dominant hand? Left or right

2. How many people do you know that are left handed? None  1-2  3-4  5-6  6+

3. Do you have any family members that are left handed? Yes or no

4. If so, what is their relation to you? _____________________________________________________

5. How many people do you know that are ambidextrous? None  1-2  3-4  5-6  6+

6. Have you ever tried using your non-dominant hand for something? Yes or no

7. If so, what did you attempt? Was it easy? _________________________________________________

8. What do you think would be the hardest thing to do if you broke your dominant hand and could only use your non-dominant hand? ______________________________________

Here are some of the results I found: 

For question #1, 45 people were right handed, and only 1 person was ambidextrous. I had absolutely no left handed people take my surveys. I guess they really are a minority. 

What I find funny, is that most of these people had relatives that were left handed, and being left handed is usually a genetic thing. 26 of the 46 said they had relatives that were left handed (mostly parents and siblings). 

As to how many people they knew that were left handed (#3), most people (22) said 3-4. The second most popular answer was 6+ (which consisted of 11 people). 5-6 followed and 1-2 came shortly after. Only 2 people said they knew no one who was left handed.

41 people answered yes for #6. Most of the 41 people said they tried writing or eating with their left hands, and it was not easy. I can attest to that. A couple said shooting and archery for theirs... and they said it was not hard, surprisingly to me. 

And again, for #8, almost everyone (about 37 people) wrote that writing would probably be the hardest thing to do if they were to break their dominant hand. I a couple people say sports would be hard, and my favorite answer, "everything".