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CHAT: Composition of conlanger population

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 21:07
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:44:58PM +0000, Chris Bates wrote:

> I think more men are left handed than women, and more left handed > people are gay than right handed people (apparently 45% of gay men are > left handed, vs 10% in the whole population). I'm not sure what other > interesting things it came up with....
Assuming that there is something biologically different about the gay brain, it would make sense for homosexuality to be more prominent in left-handers. Physiologically, most right-handed brains are cut from the same cloth, as it were, with the major functional areas laid out fairly predictably. Left-handers, on the other hand, have brain maps which differ not only from right handers, but from each other. Apparently, if you have a "normal" brain, you're right-handed; if you're left-handed, that's a sign that your brain is not "normal", and at that point all bets are off. -Marcos

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Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
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