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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:24:12 +1100
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On 24/02/2025 9:09 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> But, YOU determine your sexual preferences, sexuality, gender, etc.
>> You might "leak" hints to careful observers, but YOU are the defining
>> entity.  Whereas, in each of the preceding, you are likely the LAST
>> to know (or admit).
>>
>> [That's not to say that there aren't folks who refuse to acknowledge
>> their own preferences -- likely because they KNOW there are social
>> (and likely business/economic) consequences to that!]
> 
> That is the critical point: there is what you are - and there is what
> you do about it.   Like left-handedness, trying to suppress something
> that is part of who you are will eventually take its toll on your
> well-being.

Left-handedness is slightly different. It doesn't seem to be the
opposite of right-handedness, but rather a state in which brain
localisation of function isn't closely defined.

One of my wife colleagues used an elaborate electro-encephlograph to 
work out which bits of the brain were doing which which bits of speech 
process shortly after the speech being processed had hit the ears.

She wouldn't test left-handers because the processing locations weren't 
the same from one left-handed test subject to the next. Most 
right-handers had much more predictable processing locations.

Most of the incidence and heritability statistic make more sense if you 
look at it as a contrast between between predictable right-handedness 
and less predictable random assignment.

My father wrote with his right hand, but only because his teachers had 
insisted on it. I'm left handed, so is my younger brother but my 
youngest brother isn't. My mother wrote with her right hand, but the 
handedness preferences of her three kids do suggest that she'd been 
lucky, rather than genetically programmed.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney