(no subject)

[deathboy]

If you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right ear, say scientists.

Italian researchers found people were better at processing information when requests were made on that side in three separate tests.

---

I've said to people for years that in clubs, I might as well be deaf in my left ear for purposes of conversation - I can tell sound is coming in, but can't decode the speech. On the right hand side, absolutely no problem, and in normal situations (without loud background music) then my left ear is fine, too.

Again, as in all things, I am proven correct. Ho yus.

Comments

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too. I always assumed it was a right handed/left handed type of thing.

[nevalicori.livejournal.com]

Yup. same here. I have to hold phones to my right ear. I just can't follow a conversation otherwise.

[wrong1.livejournal.com]

Try switching ears with the phone.
Feels so wrong.

[tatoeba-tadayou.livejournal.com]

I'm deaf in my right side! Ha!

Maybe I'm just born to be a rebel. ;p

[mog-warbeast.livejournal.com]

"We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear."

Well I don't, and would be interested to hear from other left-handers on the subject.

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

I can only use the phone with my left ear. I also prefer texting. Meh.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

I also prefer texting

... with your left ear?

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

I wonder if listener's handiness affects results or not.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

I would guess not, in that speech and comprehension / various other tasks seem to concentrate on particular sides, regardless of which side you write with.

I'm a lefty, and i get it lots, but if it's a typical thing, then it must happen to plenty of righties, I suspect

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

No wonder why you're so sinister.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

prezactly.