Talk:Right-handedness

message: The article states that 90% of people are right-handed, but doesn't go on to explain why this trait seems to be dominant...
Andreala 16:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  But Why, Oh Why?! 

message: I'll have a decent go at this tomorrow. The idea of fairness make me laugh. It's an encyclopedia article, not a game of snakes and ladders. It's a bit like saying if you're going to make a list of all the monarchs of England, you should make a list of all the people who have never been monarchs of England. If you have a list of left-handed, right-handed and cross-dominant people then you basically have a list of all the people in the world. Spectacularly pointless.
I'll try and dig up some research but basically there is almost zero chance of getting a common consensus.
Mglovesfun 00:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article 

message: I've found the link for a definition or Rechts (right) in german, but I can't understand it well enough to put it on this page : Here is the link you're looking for.--Mglovesfun —Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 16 August 2006 .
* I don't know what the question was, but the presumably relevant portion is
*:Bedeutungen:
*:: [1] Die gegensätzliche Richtung/ Seite zu links. Dieser Pfeil --> zeigt nach rechts.
*:: [2] Die politisch konservative Richtung charakterisierend. 
: and the translation is
:: Meanings:
::# The opposite direction (or side) from left. This arrow --> points to the right.
::# Characterstic of the politically conservative Richtung.
::#: (I would translate Richtung as direction, or perhaps orientation or even tendency.)
:-Jerzy•t 09:05, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  German 

message: I notice that the theories explaining right-hand dominance are on the handedness page, the left-handed page and not the right-handed page. Because it's so well written, it's tempting to just copy and paste the whole thing here, but then you end up with the same section on three different pages. And yet, apart from omitting the whole section all together, what else can we do? If anything, a separate page of 'theories of handedness' might be better, to which all three articles could refer to
Mglovesfun 15:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theories explaining handedness 

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 04:09, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-02-9 Automated pywikipediabot message 

message: If you are right handed then consider adding this to your page.  DJSEDISTICAL 20:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Right Handed?

message: How about some info on use of the term in science/engineering, such as right-handed screws and right-handed coordinate systems? I came to this article from relative direction where the term right-handed coordinate system is used. Rb82 09:47, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Use in science

message: Would someone please clarify this first sentence with regards to the statement alone being obvious and that it was probably supposed to say something about the foot?  "Right handed people have been known to not be left handed".-- 65.116.202.2 (talk) 17:01, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the left/right footed and ocular sentence 

message: I've divided the lead secn into two 'graphs, and discarded material from the second of them.   The lead sent was clumsy and ignored the guidance -- quite feasible in this case -- that a good lead starts with a dict-def-like "is" sentence.  The remainder of the secn was overloaded with detail quite peripheral to the topic, namely other forms of handedness, which should be (and i think are) covered at Handedness, and in articles lk'd from it that parallel Right-handedness. One could in theory argue for consolidation of the related articles (see talk:Handedness#Lessen duplication?), but the medium for doing that is not increasing the overlap among those articles, which would lead toward multiple broad articles covering the same material with slight differences in emphasis. The topic of the accompanying  article is right-handedness, and anyone with misgivings about that focus, or the edit i'm describing, should go to talk:Handedness#Lessen duplication? and make a case there for merging Right-handedness into Handedness.--Jerzy•t 18:24, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead secn & relationship to other handedness-oriented articles