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This post must be related to the recent "How do you draw a circle?" [1] article. They used the term "southpaw", which I had never heard before. EDIT: Strange,
by nathan_f77 9y ago
This post must be related to the recent "How do you draw a circle?" [1] article. They used the term "southpaw", which I had never heard before.
EDIT: Strange, I definitely read the word "southpaw" somewhere in the last few days, and I remember learning that it was a term for left-handed people. Now I can't find it anywhere in the circle article, the HN comments [2], or the Reddit thread [3].
Little things like this really make me want to sign up for fetching.io again.
EDIT 2: Ahh, I found it! It was in a Quartz Daily Brief [4] news summary that I had skimmed earlier today:
> Left-handed people are more likely to be geniuses. The trait indicates greater connectivity between brain hemispheres, which may explain why southpaws seem to have an edge at math. ([5])
js2, I'd be really interested to know if that's why you posted this, or if it was just a coincidence.
[1] https://qz.com/994486/the-way-you-draw-circles-says-a-lot-about-you/ https://qz.com/994486/the-way-you-draw-circles-says-a-lot-ab...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579728
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6i5pa0/how_cultures_around_the_world_draw_shapes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6i5pa0/how...
[4] https://qz.com/daily-brief/ https://qz.com/daily-brief/
[5] https://qz.com/1006075/left-handed-people-are-more-likely-to-be-geniuses-in-math/ https://qz.com/1006075/left-handed-people-are-more-likely-to...
- js2 9y agoNone of the above. :-) My daughter was doing geometry homework that had a question about the direction of a baseball field and claimed they are often oriented so that the batter faces east. I wanted to verify the assertion, and Google led me to this article. I was familiar with "southpaw" but always thought it was a boxing term and didn't know its etymology.
- nathan_f77 9y agoHaha, that's great. Just the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon for me, then.