Re: Left-handed contemplatives

"Peter H.M. Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Yes, I think that I'll do something along those lines. If this
effect exists
> it need not be spread homogeniously through the popuation - some
> institutions might have a particular appeal for left-handers, others
very
> little, even if the impulse is the same, so, even if the effect is
strong we
> might find half a dozen or more institutions with normal levels of
> left-handers. So I'll have to sample ten or twenty.


Just out of curiosity, why are you fairly confident that
'contemplatives' are relatively likely to be left-handed, and what
theoretical explanation might there be for such a finding?

Dave Smith