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What determines your dominate hand?

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?

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  1. What determines your dominate hand? By: Hailey Hughes Period 5

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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.

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