Re: Left-handed contemplatives

"kames.smiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "Peter H.M. Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > 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?
>
I thought I mentioned why! The sister of a friend of mine was a nun, in her
convent there was an incredibly large proportion of left-handed nuns, well
over 50%. This struck me as unlikely to be a coincidence since left-handed
brains are different from right handed ones. The explanation as to why
left-handers go in for this, if indeed it proves that they do generally,
will be another question, related to differences in their brain structure.


-- 
  "We pride ourselves on our peace and stability" - Zimbabwean President
Robert Mugabe