Left-handed wine drinkers?

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Brad Widelock

Brad Widelock
Last week my wife, who is left-handed, and I were at a wine tasting with nine other people. Because she is a champion of the oppressed and downtrodden, she notices other left-handers. Of the eleven people there, five were left-handed. Lefties are only 10% of the general population, but were 45% of that group. Is this a statistical anomaly, or are southpaws over-represented among wine drinkers? Full disclosure: I am now, and always have been, right-handed.

Brad
 
Whilst I am not in any way supporting that theory, I can posit a tenuous link: lefties have a dominant right brain, which IIRC is responsible for artistic and creative expression , at least in the oversimplified reduction of Roger Sperry's research.

Mark Lipton
 
I was born left-handed, according to my parents, but my father's grandmother, who was a fundamentalist religious lunatic, decided to save me. I wonder how common that is, amongst wine folk?
 
I am a rightie. Pertinent to Steve's story, my dad does everything leftie except the two things that were pounded into him in grade school: writing and throwing a baseball (...but he bowls leftie, etc).
 
On this note, I read something interesting about 75%, I think it was, of people using the phone on their right ear. I use the phone only on my left ear.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I am a rightie. Pertinent to Steve's story, my dad does everything leftie except the two things that were pounded into him in grade school: writing and throwing a baseball (...but he bowls leftie, etc).
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Throwing a baseball?? That's terrible.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
On this note, I read something interesting about 75%, I think it was, of people using the phone on their right ear. I use the phone only on my left ear.
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yeah, something about the phone on my right ear doesn't feel... right
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
On this note, I read something interesting about 75%, I think it was, of people using the phone on their right ear. I use the phone only on my left ear.
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yeah, something about the phone on my right ear doesn't feel... right
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My God, I've always used the phone on my left ear. Is my malady curable?
Maybe because I live fairly close to Berkeley so everything I do is left oriented?
Will the government be watching and listening to me more carefully than before?
 
Well wine drinkers are kinda weird, and geeky wine drinkers probably being over-represented by lefties, I'd say it's par for the course.
 
I blame too much long-gun shooting for my right ear prob. Comprehension is better, but signal is worse. What to do?
 
There's a guy who delivers cheese locally and every time I sign the invoice, he talks about how many left-handed people he encounters each day. I'm sure that's not the case when the Kraft truck rolls into Safeway. However, I bet any field that's particularly interesting has an inordinate amount of southpaws.
 
If you keep tossing a coin you will expect to see numerous heads in a row at some point because that's true randomness. 5 out of 11 shows nothing at all since the sample is so small. You will need to test a much bigger amount of people before you can say anything.
 
originally posted by John McIlwain:
Left-handed. Also swirl glass clockwise. In both hemispheres.
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Right-handed. Swirl wine clockwise. Hold phone to left ear. Have good taste in wine and cheese. Throw baseballs and bowl with right. What can this mean?!?!?!!!
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
I'm right handed but bat, golf , and play hockey left handed.

Drink with both hands.
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Me too, though I had to learn to play golf right-handed to get hand-me-down clubs.
 
The ceaseless denigration of right handed wine drinkers must stop!

All right minded people must stand against this sinister conspiracy.
 
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