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Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that scientists have found that if you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right ear. Known as the 'right ear advantage,' scientists believe it is because information received through the right ear is processed by the left hand side of the brain which is more logical and better at deciphering verbal information than the right side of the brain. 'Talk into the right ear you send your words into a slightly more amenable part of the brain,' say researchers. The team, led by Dr. Luca Tommasi and Daniele Marzoli from the University of Chieti in central Italy, observed the behavior of hundreds of people in three nightclubs across the city where they intentionally addressed 176 people in either their right or their left ear when asking for a cigarette. They obtained significantly more cigarettes when they made their request in a person's right ear compared with their left. 'These results seem to be consistent with the hypothesized specialization of right and left hemispheres,' say researchers. 'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.'"
Seems like the classic example.
Classic in what way? I don't hear requests for cigarettes or change with either ear.
>Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically.
This article just got owned. No more comments needed.
At least this one is nicer than the brain melting suffered from the ones that read the Dune prequels.
This is why successful leaders tend to prefer advice from their "right hand man". Who listens to their "left hand man"? No one - that's who!
if you take to a soldier in the right ear as your going down the squad line
The following person not only remembers it, he's scarred for life.
"Talk to the hand"
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Clearly, everybody who disagreed with you thought you were a 'whack job'. That would have certainly explained the need for your right hand.
I am right handed and sometimes hold my phone to my left ear, so my right hand can be occupied in another way. Wait, that sounds gross. Uh, I was, uh, I was talking about writing things down. HONESTLY!
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I just use whichever ear isn't being chewed off by the missus.
Exactly!
To the left ear : "Yo, gimme some cigarette, fat bitch! Vaffanculo!"
To the right ear : "Sorry to interrupt, would you please consider giving me one cigarette? Grazie mille!"
I hold my phone to the ear that doesn't require me to reach around my fucking face.
But meh. Maybe that's why I'm so short with stupid people on the telephone.
... or the joy stick.
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How are olives superiour to colliflower? And don't you go mentioning my genicutals... Pervert.
In short, WTF?
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But use a "!=" so we know you're a programmer.
Indeed. For example, a rifle tends to be longer than a pistol. :-)
SCNR
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
If "una bella figura" like in the picture stepped up to me in an nightclub and asked for a cigarette I would start smoking right then and there. (Somebody already said it: Take your grant money nightclubbing)
Same here, but for some reason when playing baseball I always batted lefty even though I am right handed. Batting right handed never "felt right" to me.
Of course batting left handed I seemed to nail the pitcher in the nuts quite often and while he was in a fetal position holding his nuts it was trivial to get to first base, but I'm sure that was just a coincidence.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
...and this EVEN explains why most men do the driving - our wives, knowing the secret right ear thing, prefer to sit on the right, making us drive and simultaneously compelling us to do their bidding! ...or it could just be some bullshit theory where the data was cherry picked to make some sort of pop science conclusion.
-Styopa
I guess that's why I keep annoying people at work. I don't hear much with my right ear as I had a hearing loss on that side years ago.
Maybe that's also why my ex left me. She could never get any favours!
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." -- A. Whitney Brown
A good wife doesn't talk to your right ear when she wants a favor, but your middle leg.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Tried it today! When asking people for a cigarette while speaking into their deaf ear I found that I received no cigarettes at all! I'll analyze the data further and post my conclusions....
Well, I'm calling BS on this whole idea. I've been talking into my wife's right ear every night for 16 years (she sleeps to my left) and it almost NEVER WORKS. Tag this junkscience please.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
No, women kill you for joking about it.
gah, I'm going senile. write. right.
I'm never use too have this sort of problems... :-S
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