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Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking

11 points by bryanrasmussen 5mo ago

bryanrasmussen 5mo ago
I was looking for an archive.org link but the one I found said > You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot. https://web.archive.org/web/20260611034941/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/science/humans-walking-veer-left-counterclockwise.html https://web.archive.org/web/20260611034941/https://www.nytim...
- marysminefnuf 5mo ago
  The nyt can go fudge themselves. My Students have been divided as a class into some that can use good sources like the nyt cause their parents pay and the poors who im not able to use archive for anymore. If i ever see another oped in their paper about how journalism is in danger because of xyz im going to throwup.
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dlcarrier 5mo ago
This was in enclosed spaces, so a better way to describe it would be that everyone veers right, hits a wall, then turns left. I used to shop at a liquidator who's prices would drop daily, so at the beginning of the day a crowd would wait outside for the store to open, then it would flood the store with everyone looking for the most valuable products. I found that if I went clockwise around the store, I could evaluate more products faster than if I went counterclockwise, because slightly more shoppers were going counterclockwise. This matches what the study found, but I'd describe it as most shoppers turning right, when given a choice to turn in either direction, then being forced to make only left turns, when running into corners. I wonder if the clockwise to counterclockwise ratio differs in countries with left-hand drive. The study only mentions that the average is the same in any country.
abstractspoon 5mo ago
My left leg is shorter than my right. Can't speak for anyone else
halJordan 5mo ago
It's well known that people veer when they walk. That's a reason why people die in the wilderness after they get lost, because they walk around in circles going no where

I was looking for an archive.org link but the one I found said > You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot. https://web.archive.org/web/20260611034941/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/science/humans-walking-veer-left-counterclockwise.html https://web.archive.org/web/20260611034941/https://www.nytim...

marysminefnuf 5mo ago
The nyt can go fudge themselves. My Students have been divided as a class into some that can use good sources like the nyt cause their parents pay and the poors who im not able to use archive for anymore. If i ever see another oped in their paper about how journalism is in danger because of xyz im going to throwup.
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dlcarrier 5mo ago

This was in enclosed spaces, so a better way to describe it would be that everyone veers right, hits a wall, then turns left. I used to shop at a liquidator who's prices would drop daily, so at the beginning of the day a crowd would wait outside for the store to open, then it would flood the store with everyone looking for the most valuable products. I found that if I went clockwise around the store, I could evaluate more products faster than if I went counterclockwise, because slightly more shoppers were going counterclockwise. This matches what the study found, but I'd describe it as most shoppers turning right, when given a choice to turn in either direction, then being forced to make only left turns, when running into corners. I wonder if the clockwise to counterclockwise ratio differs in countries with left-hand drive. The study only mentions that the average is the same in any country.

abstractspoon 5mo ago

My left leg is shorter than my right. Can't speak for anyone else

halJordan 5mo ago

It's well known that people veer when they walk. That's a reason why people die in the wilderness after they get lost, because they walk around in circles going no where