The eyes have it.

[robinbloke]

Close one eye.



[Poll #845825]

Comments

[ua-meruti.livejournal.com]

Lefties rule!
Uh... yeah!

[sortelli.livejournal.com]

I closed my right eye, and stuck with that while I clicked, and then realized after the fact that I would have been much more comfortable closing my left eye because I'm right handed. Funny how that works!

[sortelli.livejournal.com]

Also, Atland icon? Good show!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

That panel is responsible for me almost snorting my drink out through my nose! Atland is simply genius! :)

/me refreshes a few more times on the EOI site ;)

[twentypence.livejournal.com]

Which eye you close might have something to do with eye dominance as well. I have a left eye dominance so I always close my right eye.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Sort of what I'm looking for, eye dominance vs. hand dominance.

[twentypence.livejournal.com]

Ah, then you might have some confounding data, because people won't always close their weakest eye (especially if there's not a lot of difference in them), and people without a dominant eye will just pick an eye randomly.

A better test is the finger test.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting that my test isn't entirely scientific!?!

[twentypence.livejournal.com]

Let's just say I'm more amused by the thought of people holding up their fingers and winking at them than just the thought of people winking at the screen. :o)

[nina321.livejournal.com]

There's another way of doing that. Hold your hands out infront of you and make a small opening with your thumb and index finger of both hands so that you can see an object in the distance through it.
Move the opening in your hands closer to your face until your hands are actually on your face, and you'll have moved it to one eye rather than the other.
My hands always go to my right eye, but I closed my right eye when I did this poll.

Incidentally, in other completely unrelated news, I moved to Dogsthorpe!

[twentypence.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that one before, interesting.

Congrats on the move, I've not seen much of Dogsthorpe (apart from the A47), is it nice?

[nina321.livejournal.com]

As a whole? No. Not really!
However, it's close to the centre, and about a mile and a half from where I work, and my street (it's a little dead end) is really nice.
My house is awesome and my neighbours are really nice too, so it's all good!
I do actually live really very close to the tip jut off the A47, but it doesn't smell (that had worried me for a while).

The eye thing was what they told us to do when I went to archery in Whittlesey this weekend.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

A lot of archery comments about the whole hand eye thing :)

[twentypence.livejournal.com]

Glad that you're happy with it, Peterborough is strange in that you can find really nice spots hidden away in certain places.
And it's great to have nice neighbours, we spend a lot of time chatting with our over the fence and they even agreed to puppy sit for us a few weeks back, which was very nice of them.

A bad smell can drive you insane... especially if you're autumn_storm, so I'm glad you don't have one. :o)

I thought about it for a second ...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... and thought "if this is some sort of optical illusion thing, then only using one eye won't matter as I only have a 2D screen" so I didn't close either eye and then clicked ... so no answer matches :-(

Re: I thought about it for a second ...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Heh. And once you have to think about it, it doesn't work ;)

[deborah_c]

In my case, I find that closing my left eye is physically rather easier than closing the right, which may have something to do with it. I have no idea why my face is lopsided - it always has been slightly. Smiling is the same -- the left side moves more naturally than the right.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I have noticed when I squint (usually cycling into the sun when chased by Red Indians) it's always my left eye. Hence I thought I'd pry into other peoples visual tendencies as well. :)

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I can raise my right eyebrow easily (and always have been able to) but had to put some effort into raising my left eyebrow on its own (and it looks a bit strange when I do it anyway!).

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

Squinting - oddness. When I have horrid uveitis (pain in bright lights) and have to have affected eye dilated (paralysed!), it would make sense for Mr.Brain to make me squint affected dilated eye to reduce amount of bright light getting in. However, Mr.Brain always does the converse so healthy eye squints and fully dilated eye gets 100% sun-blast. Bodies are odd. Brains are odder.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I am right handed but left eyed, because the right one is a bit short sighted. This is what they taught me to do when I tried archery.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Trained eyeballness!

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[karohemd.livejournal.com]

My right eye is the dominant one because my left doesn't really feature in my vision (when I close it I only lose a small portion of my field of vision).

ION, have you seen today's Dork Tower? ;o)

Re: to add

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. heh. SPLEEN!

[suzerain.livejournal.com]

whereas I'm ambidextrous, slightly left-handed, but have nerves wrecked in the left side of my cheek from an accident when I was a kid, and so smile and squit much more with my right eye/side.

just to be tricky

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Closed my left eye - it's by far the weaker of the two, but I'm right-handed.

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

I notice about twice as many people closed their left eye compared to their right, for any given handed-ness - at the point I looked at the poll anyway.

I closed my left too.. I don't know if it has anything to do with me being used to doing that to use a camera, which IMO is biassed towards people using their right eye. (Although, i'm probably biassed, being right-handed)

[the-mendicant.livejournal.com]

Not having any context whatsoever, but are we going? Tickets selling fast

http://www.masquerade-ball.org.uk/

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Really can't afford anything else at the moment; still owe you for the other event in Jan :(

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

I saw a sciency-type programme years ago that proposed that being right- or left-eyed was not related to being right- or left-handed.

I shoot (yes, real guns, not that Airsoft rubbish!) with my right eye and use my telescope with my right eye, but I take photographs exclusively with my left eye.

Also, I have been known to occasionally spend protracted periods of time with only one contact lense in (pre-aviation you'll be relieved to hear). It takes a day or so for Mr.Brain to get itself sorted out, but soon you adapt to only having one eye working regardless of which one, and when you get both back again Mr.Brain ignores the newly sighted one for quite some time. I found judging distance when driving between me and cars parked along the road on my left the hardest.....

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I shoot with my right eye [real guns and otherwise :)] and photo with my left.

I'm rather glad you don't wear just the one lens for flying! Speaking of whcih, when you meant to be returning to the flight deck?

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's to do with artistic/creative side of brain and scientific side? 9I shoot for science?!)

Back on January 14th. One contact lense was in the days I only had one set of semi-hards that I wore until they died. Then I had to wait a week or so for the optician to order in a replacement. We can't all get laser treatment : P