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What determines your dominate hand?. By: Hailey Hughes Period 5. What is hand dominants?. A dominant hand is the hand you use more in general. If you are right-handed, you don’t feel as comfortable with your left hand as your right.
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What determines your dominate hand? By: Hailey Hughes Period 5
What is hand dominants? • A dominant hand is the hand you use more in general. If you are right-handed, you don’t feel as comfortable with your left hand as your right. • Also, most people feel that there non dominant hand isn’t as strong as there dominant hand.
Why are there more right-handed people then left-handed? • 5% of 30% is left-handed • 70-90% of people are right-handed • People prefer there left hand
Studies' • Hand dominants starts to develop between 2-3 years • It fully develops by age 6 • Usually, a baby will pick up random objects, with one hand and then start to prefer that hand over then the other
How do you figure out what your dominant hand is? • Whatever hand you write/ use more • If you play sports, it’s what hand you use to dribble, throw, or hit. • Or you can find your dominant hand by going into a boxing position and what hand you use to punch. • Or you can see if you are stronger with either or right or left hand
Genetics • 2% of children that are left-handed, both parents are right-handed • 42% of children that are left-handed, both of there parents are left-handed • Handedness is mostly determined by genetics
Citations • "Hand Dominance." Hand Dominance. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2013. • "What Causes Hand Dominance?" WiseGEEK. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2013. • "Why Are More People Right-handed?: Scientific American." Why Are More People Right-handed?: Scientific American. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2013.