CHAT: Composition of conlanger population
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 21:07 |
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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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