ambidextrous? What are the probability?

Question

My father was very left handed. My mother is extremely right handed. I have always used both. My brother is right handed. I can eat, write, sew, I knit left handed and crochet right, Right handed people carry things in their right arm predominately, I carry in my left arm. Watch feels weird on my left so has always been on right. I build things left handed and catch baseballs left too. I hit either. Any idea what the odds are that I was born this way?

Answer 1

I'm a little confused because you didn't say if one hand was better at doing any of these things than the other. I can write fine with my left hand but I'm MUCH faster with my right. I can do a lot of things left handed without much of a problem but my right hand works much better so I'm "right handed". You're not considered truly ambidextrous if you favor one hand for most "precise fine motor skill operations", usually writing (some musical instruments don't count, like violin)

Mixed-handedness is if different hands are better at different tasks. If you write and sew better with your left hand but brush your teeth and eat better with the right, you might be called "mixed-handed". But most people would say you were left handed since the fine motor skills were performed better with your left hand. You could call some of these people "ambidextrous with a left preference" (or right preference)

One 1962 poll found that 2% of people called themselves 'ambidextrous'. A 1992 survey found only 1% claimed to be. Many of the people who were polled still favored the left hand. It is more common for left handed people to have some control over their right hand than vice versa. They are not considered truly ambidextrous unless they can perform ALL tasks equally with both hands without favoring one over the other. Everything I've read says this is "very rare".

Answer 2

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