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Right handed or Left handed?

by Whaleoil on January 29, 2011

This is a psychology test page. It has been completed by someone I know. The test was supposedly conducted by Dr Ralf Schnabel, the same psychologist who tested me on behalf of Fidelity Life.

Without telling readers anymore I want to know what you think about the handwritten answers. Were they completed by a right handed person or a left handed person and you reasons why you think this is the case. I don’t care about the answers themselves simply the pen marks. Were they created by a right handed person or a left handed person?

Right Handed or Left Handed?

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  • monty

    leftie because they start at the bottom and head right. A Rightie would start at the top

  • http://frontrower.gotcha.co.nz The Frontrower

    I’m no expert at this. I’m going with a rightie, a leftie would have done the marks \ instead of /.

  • symgardiner

    Could be rightie as the marks curve like a – ie with the centre of the curve down to the bottom right of the page.. If it was a leftie then the centre of the curve would be up the top left.
    BUT the thicker part of the mark is towards the bottom left which is like a leftie.

  • tristanb

    Right-handed. Picking random people from the street you’d be better off guessing right-handed, because this is of course more common. That is my starting point.

    Obviously in a situation like this, there is a greater chance the answer will be left because a specific example (not a random sample) has been chosen.

    When crossing out items quickly and repetitively, people to tend to push ‘outwards’ from themselves as it is mechanically easier. This means in a right-hander, we’d move upwards and laterally (to the right). Of course many left-handers train themselves to be a bit more ambidextrous, so this could have easily mean made by a leftie.

    And of course, the fact there are no mistakes means it was down by someone with the mental age older than about 6. Which rules out many left-handers. So my answer is right.

  • karen

    I’m right handed and daughter is left handed. I would make the marks in the way shown on the paper (/), bottom to top. My daughter would naturally make them in the opposite direction (\) but if she did make them in the way shown, it would be from top to bottom rather than bottom to top.

  • kevin

    Right handed. The slash strokes start at the bottom left of the boxes/symbols and flick/feather off to the top right of the box. Not a 100% certainty but 80% I reckon.
    A leftie would be inclined to go diagonally the opposite, as begin bottom right to top left.

  • whalewatcher

    right

  • cadwallader

    Right handed person.

  • michaels

    I am left handed. I would have gone from the right hand bottom up to the left hand top. These are the other way and fade off as the get to the top.
    So right handed.

  • lulu

    same action as a tick for a right handed person. Bottom left to top right. I’m going with right handed.

  • abjv

    Not consistent, different thicknesses, sometimes with change of angle at top right sometimes not. Were they holding the pen in their toes?

  • grizz

    A leftie would have a concave curve. As the curves are convex, this is a righty.

  • titanuranus

    Blatantly obvious,that this person is ambidextrous .

  • jimmie

    Probably used his foot

  • reid

    OK my answer without looking at the comments above is they are a right-handed person.

    My reason is there is a downward swing and curl to the right from top to bottom on each stroke. You can see they all curve. That is a natural swing if you were marking it off with your right hand, with your hand positioned slightly below each answer. If you were a left-handed person, you could not make that swing as a natural writing motion – it would be a backward motion for your fingers to make.

    Right, what did others say?

  • pidge

    Right handed

  • animalmother

    Right-handed person. But he actually wrote the answers holding the pencil in his anus.

    • Agent BallSack

      So its Chris Carters test?

      • animalmother

        It’d have to be a mighty fat pencil for Ms Carter to get a decent grip on it.

  • Cody

    Assumptions: It appears to me that the marks uniformly start in the bottom left, and end in the top right.

    Conclusion: The person is clearly right-handed.

    Reasoning: I’m left-handed, and it would be almost impossible for me to make marks like that. My wrist wouldn’t rotate through the correct axis, so I couldn’t do it with a flick; I’d basically have to pick up my hand and draw the mark freehand. (Which clearly isn’t what was done here; the marks are too regular.)