breast poll results

[sistawendy]

Here are the results of yesterday's breast poll:

	left larger	right larger	asymmetric (sum of left & right larger)	neither larger
left-handed	0	0	0	6
right-handed	8	9	17	2
ambidextrous	1	1	2	1

Conclusions:

• Breasts are dynamic. I've collected anecdotes (and I'm sure others have collected data) suggesting that plenty of events, hormonal and otherwise, can affect breast symmetry: puberty, childbirth, even asymmetric exercise. If this was a duh to you, it wasn't to me.


• That said, I was struck not by any correlation of hand preference to either breast's being larger, but to more general asymmetry. Clearly this merits further study.


• randomdreams, morthael, and ionan are sillyheads.

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In other news, we had a FiOS outage here at the Abbey for about 16 hours. Nibs & m'boy were Displeased. It wasn't the fiber that had trouble, though; it was the crufty cabling on the outside of the house.

ETA: More data points!

ETAA: Even more data points!

Comments

[ximinez]

This is the breast poll ever.

[my-poison-apple.livejournal.com]

Huh. Interesting that all of the left-handed people all have symmetrical breasts and hardly any of the right-handed people do.

(BTW, chalk one more up to the right-handed/asymmetrical group. I voted in the poll after you posted this.)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it makes me wonder what the mechanism could be. Is a higher proportion of the right-handers doing different kinds of asymmetrycal exercise? If I do this poll again in three months, how different will the results be? Is anybody asymmetric and not admitting it?

Ain't science grand?

[cuddlyeconomist.livejournal.com]

It's possible that the asymetry isn't that noticable. When I was pregnant, they looked about the same size, but when they are normal sized, the left is a half-full cup bigger. But that's pretty noticable.