<article>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#article09_06_24_2257221</id>
	<title>Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear</title>
	<author>samzenpus</author>
	<datestamp>1245860280000</datestamp>
	<htmltext><a href="http://hughpickens.com/" rel="nofollow">Hugh Pickens</a> writes <i>"The Telegraph reports that scientists have found that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5612036/Want-to-get-something-done--talk-to-people-in-their-right-ear.html">if you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right ear</a>. 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 <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8116321.stm">send your words into a slightly more amenable part of the brain</a>,' 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization\_of\_brain\_function">hypothesized specialization of right and left hemispheres</a>,' say researchers. 'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.'"</i></htmltext>
<tokenext>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 .
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<sentencetext>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.
'"</sentencetext>
</article>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464733</id>
	<title>Re:dextrocardia</title>
	<author>Culture20</author>
	<datestamp>1245933480000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>dextrocardia == heart on right side.  Total body mirroring is a result of being flipped 4-dimensionally (like a 2D person flipped in 3D before being put back in their 2D world).  Was her last boyfriend prone to disappearing from closed rooms?</htmltext>
<tokenext>dextrocardia = = heart on right side .
Total body mirroring is a result of being flipped 4-dimensionally ( like a 2D person flipped in 3D before being put back in their 2D world ) .
Was her last boyfriend prone to disappearing from closed rooms ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>dextrocardia == heart on right side.
Total body mirroring is a result of being flipped 4-dimensionally (like a 2D person flipped in 3D before being put back in their 2D world).
Was her last boyfriend prone to disappearing from closed rooms?</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463185</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28468683</id>
	<title>Re:whether or not this is true</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245954360000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>and even breastless fathers, tend to hold their babies with their right arms to their left breast. this places the babies head on the left side of the body, putting the baby closer to the left side sensory inputs, which are governed by the right side of the brain, the more emotional side, thus establishing more of an emotional bond</p><p>so i don't know about all this ear stuff, but there seems to be something, at best subtle, that is real about side preference and emotions and logic</p></div><p>I think the part about logic is missing from your brain.  I hold my friends baby with my right arm because it's stronger than my left arm, and that sucker is heavy and likes to squirm.  If I hold him with my left, there's a higher change I'll drop him.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>and even breastless fathers , tend to hold their babies with their right arms to their left breast .
this places the babies head on the left side of the body , putting the baby closer to the left side sensory inputs , which are governed by the right side of the brain , the more emotional side , thus establishing more of an emotional bondso i do n't know about all this ear stuff , but there seems to be something , at best subtle , that is real about side preference and emotions and logicI think the part about logic is missing from your brain .
I hold my friends baby with my right arm because it 's stronger than my left arm , and that sucker is heavy and likes to squirm .
If I hold him with my left , there 's a higher change I 'll drop him .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>and even breastless fathers, tend to hold their babies with their right arms to their left breast.
this places the babies head on the left side of the body, putting the baby closer to the left side sensory inputs, which are governed by the right side of the brain, the more emotional side, thus establishing more of an emotional bondso i don't know about all this ear stuff, but there seems to be something, at best subtle, that is real about side preference and emotions and logicI think the part about logic is missing from your brain.
I hold my friends baby with my right arm because it's stronger than my left arm, and that sucker is heavy and likes to squirm.
If I hold him with my left, there's a higher change I'll drop him.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463635</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467601</id>
	<title>Right hand man</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245950460000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>So I guess my right hand man should sit on my left!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>So I guess my right hand man should sit on my left !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So I guess my right hand man should sit on my left!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462815</id>
	<title>Double Blind?</title>
	<author>twoshortplanks</author>
	<datestamp>1245864720000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext>This article suggests that the experiments were conducted by the very people who were proposing the hypothesis.  That's not very scientific - this should have been double blind.  Any number of factors can effect the success rate of getting the cigarettes - including if the researchers believed they were likely to be more successful.</htmltext>
<tokenext>This article suggests that the experiments were conducted by the very people who were proposing the hypothesis .
That 's not very scientific - this should have been double blind .
Any number of factors can effect the success rate of getting the cigarettes - including if the researchers believed they were likely to be more successful .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This article suggests that the experiments were conducted by the very people who were proposing the hypothesis.
That's not very scientific - this should have been double blind.
Any number of factors can effect the success rate of getting the cigarettes - including if the researchers believed they were likely to be more successful.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462895</id>
	<title>Re:Correlation != Causality</title>
	<author>Jurily</author>
	<datestamp>1245865620000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>Seems like the classic example.</p></div><p>Classic in what way? I don't hear requests for cigarettes or change with either ear.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Seems like the classic example.Classic in what way ?
I do n't hear requests for cigarettes or change with either ear .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Seems like the classic example.Classic in what way?
I don't hear requests for cigarettes or change with either ear.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462757</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462801</id>
	<title>Anonymous Coward</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864540000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>So that's where the term "Right hand" and "Right hand man comes from?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:D</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>So that 's where the term " Right hand " and " Right hand man comes from ?
: D</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So that's where the term "Right hand" and "Right hand man comes from?
:D</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462881</id>
	<title>phew... it wasn't my sexual prowess after all</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245865440000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I just sleep on the wrong side of the bed!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I just sleep on the wrong side of the bed !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I just sleep on the wrong side of the bed!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465883</id>
	<title>Italians</title>
	<author>Hognoxious</author>
	<datestamp>1245942300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Italians<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... in nightclubs<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... cadging cigarettes.</p><p>Gotta be a hoax.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Italians ... in nightclubs ... cadging cigarettes.Got ta be a hoax .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Italians ... in nightclubs ... cadging cigarettes.Gotta be a hoax.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28480839</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>vVF4N</author>
	<datestamp>1246025640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I am left-handed and I hold my phone to my right ear so my left hand is free to take notes. Someone should start a poll</htmltext>
<tokenext>I am left-handed and I hold my phone to my right ear so my left hand is free to take notes .
Someone should start a poll</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I am left-handed and I hold my phone to my right ear so my left hand is free to take notes.
Someone should start a poll</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462757</id>
	<title>Correlation != Causality</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>Seems like the classic example.  More people are right handed then left handed, left handed people are more assertive.. who knows.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Seems like the classic example .
More people are right handed then left handed , left handed people are more assertive.. who knows .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Seems like the classic example.
More people are right handed then left handed, left handed people are more assertive.. who knows.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462825</id>
	<title>Not enough data</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>176 people...

How is that enough to put the data up to more than just coincidence?

Repeat the experiment 10 more times, then it might be a little more credible.</htmltext>
<tokenext>176 people.. . How is that enough to put the data up to more than just coincidence ?
Repeat the experiment 10 more times , then it might be a little more credible .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>176 people...

How is that enough to put the data up to more than just coincidence?
Repeat the experiment 10 more times, then it might be a little more credible.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463115</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>garphik</author>
	<datestamp>1245868260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Fine if you want to say your logical side is not left, but its mostly because your right side says so<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)</htmltext>
<tokenext>Fine if you want to say your logical side is not left , but its mostly because your right side says so ... ; )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Fine if you want to say your logical side is not left, but its mostly because your right side says so ... ;)</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28472493</id>
	<title>Re:Double Blind?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245924840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>You're right about the double-blind part, wrong about everything else. It doesn't matter if the people asked smoke or don't, if their males, females, shemales, or seashells - as long as the selection between right/left ear is random. As for the sample size, statistical significance corrects for that, and anyway 176 seems pretty reasonable to me.</p><p>I do agree that this experiment could be better planned, though. There's no reason why this shouldn't be repeated as a properly controlled experiment in a laboratory setting.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>You 're right about the double-blind part , wrong about everything else .
It does n't matter if the people asked smoke or do n't , if their males , females , shemales , or seashells - as long as the selection between right/left ear is random .
As for the sample size , statistical significance corrects for that , and anyway 176 seems pretty reasonable to me.I do agree that this experiment could be better planned , though .
There 's no reason why this should n't be repeated as a properly controlled experiment in a laboratory setting .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>You're right about the double-blind part, wrong about everything else.
It doesn't matter if the people asked smoke or don't, if their males, females, shemales, or seashells - as long as the selection between right/left ear is random.
As for the sample size, statistical significance corrects for that, and anyway 176 seems pretty reasonable to me.I do agree that this experiment could be better planned, though.
There's no reason why this shouldn't be repeated as a properly controlled experiment in a laboratory setting.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462933</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462997</id>
	<title>That's funny</title>
	<author>steve.howard</author>
	<datestamp>1245866880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I'm deaf in my right ear, I must be tight-fisted.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)</htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm deaf in my right ear , I must be tight-fisted .
; )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm deaf in my right ear, I must be tight-fisted.
;)</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466163</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>clone53421</author>
	<datestamp>1245943680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I think you're over-specializing it. I'd tend to agree that it's probably because most people are right-handed, but I doubt it's merely because handing a cig is easier when the recipient is on your right side. I'm guessing that it's a whole lot more basic to human personality than that.</p><p>I can't claim to have hard evidence, obviously, but I'd suspect that right-handers are more comfortable with a person to their right... it's their dominant, stronger side. Even if it's not a conscious thought, they'll unconsciously sense that they have more control over that situation, which puts them more at ease. I can also see how this effect could be especially noticeable when the person approaching you is a stranger.</p><p>It's no different from the aversion to being approached from behind, it's just a different manifestation of it &ndash; relating to physical strength rather than sight. We're simply uncomfortable when we're unconsciously aware of our own weakness or vulnerability.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I think you 're over-specializing it .
I 'd tend to agree that it 's probably because most people are right-handed , but I doubt it 's merely because handing a cig is easier when the recipient is on your right side .
I 'm guessing that it 's a whole lot more basic to human personality than that.I ca n't claim to have hard evidence , obviously , but I 'd suspect that right-handers are more comfortable with a person to their right... it 's their dominant , stronger side .
Even if it 's not a conscious thought , they 'll unconsciously sense that they have more control over that situation , which puts them more at ease .
I can also see how this effect could be especially noticeable when the person approaching you is a stranger.It 's no different from the aversion to being approached from behind , it 's just a different manifestation of it    relating to physical strength rather than sight .
We 're simply uncomfortable when we 're unconsciously aware of our own weakness or vulnerability .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I think you're over-specializing it.
I'd tend to agree that it's probably because most people are right-handed, but I doubt it's merely because handing a cig is easier when the recipient is on your right side.
I'm guessing that it's a whole lot more basic to human personality than that.I can't claim to have hard evidence, obviously, but I'd suspect that right-handers are more comfortable with a person to their right... it's their dominant, stronger side.
Even if it's not a conscious thought, they'll unconsciously sense that they have more control over that situation, which puts them more at ease.
I can also see how this effect could be especially noticeable when the person approaching you is a stranger.It's no different from the aversion to being approached from behind, it's just a different manifestation of it – relating to physical strength rather than sight.
We're simply uncomfortable when we're unconsciously aware of our own weakness or vulnerability.</sentencetext>
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</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466967</id>
	<title>Re:dextrocardia</title>
	<author>davidshewitt</author>
	<datestamp>1245947880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I think you have that backwards.  Dextrocardia means the heart is on the <b>right</b> side of the body.  See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrocardia" title="wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow">wikipedia</a> [wikipedia.org] for more information.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I think you have that backwards .
Dextrocardia means the heart is on the right side of the body .
See wikipedia [ wikipedia.org ] for more information .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I think you have that backwards.
Dextrocardia means the heart is on the right side of the body.
See wikipedia [wikipedia.org] for more information.</sentencetext>
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</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28468807</id>
	<title>Nice to know...</title>
	<author>Tetsujin</author>
	<datestamp>1245954840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>This makes me real glad that mine is the right side of the bed...</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>This makes me real glad that mine is the right side of the bed.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This makes me real glad that mine is the right side of the bed...</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463271</id>
	<title>Yes, It's Science</title>
	<author>droidsURlooking4</author>
	<datestamp>1245870180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Check this out

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU" title="youtube.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU</a> [youtube.com]</htmltext>
<tokenext>Check this out http : //www.youtube.com/watch ? v = UyyjU8fzEYU [ youtube.com ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU [youtube.com]</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28469431</id>
	<title>Mutant Space Bananas</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245957180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>Wouldn't the logical side of your brain be more likely to tell you, no you don't want to give someone else your cigarettes?</htmltext>
<tokenext>Would n't the logical side of your brain be more likely to tell you , no you do n't want to give someone else your cigarettes ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Wouldn't the logical side of your brain be more likely to tell you, no you don't want to give someone else your cigarettes?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467401</id>
	<title>It was dumb to use loud place</title>
	<author>maxwells\_deamon</author>
	<datestamp>1245949680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Maybe people hear better out of their right ear.  It would explain this just as well.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Maybe people hear better out of their right ear .
It would explain this just as well .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Maybe people hear better out of their right ear.
It would explain this just as well.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463119</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464681</id>
	<title>Talk to my left ear</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245932700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I direct colleagues, strangers, friends, family etc. to talk into my left ear.</p><p>But that's because I'm deaf in that ear and I want an easy life.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I direct colleagues , strangers , friends , family etc .
to talk into my left ear.But that 's because I 'm deaf in that ear and I want an easy life .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I direct colleagues, strangers, friends, family etc.
to talk into my left ear.But that's because I'm deaf in that ear and I want an easy life.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463781</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>Repossessed</author>
	<datestamp>1245962580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Does it matter?</p><p>The real point here is that if I stand on someone's right side they're more likely to do what I tell them.</p><p>This gets me one step closer to that volcano lair filled with minions.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Does it matter ? The real point here is that if I stand on someone 's right side they 're more likely to do what I tell them.This gets me one step closer to that volcano lair filled with minions .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Does it matter?The real point here is that if I stand on someone's right side they're more likely to do what I tell them.This gets me one step closer to that volcano lair filled with minions.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462771</id>
	<title>I'm surprised</title>
	<author>soundhack</author>
	<datestamp>1245864360000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>this isn't common knowledge by now, I noticed this years ago when I started using cell phones (especially the old analog ones). With a lot of noise, I could hear the person on the other end better if I held the cell phone next to my right ear.</p><p>I wonder if handedness has any influence at all?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>this is n't common knowledge by now , I noticed this years ago when I started using cell phones ( especially the old analog ones ) .
With a lot of noise , I could hear the person on the other end better if I held the cell phone next to my right ear.I wonder if handedness has any influence at all ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>this isn't common knowledge by now, I noticed this years ago when I started using cell phones (especially the old analog ones).
With a lot of noise, I could hear the person on the other end better if I held the cell phone next to my right ear.I wonder if handedness has any influence at all?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463169</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245868980000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>That is incorrect. The ascending fibers from the cochlear nuclei have decussating and non-decussating fiber bundles. The 'auditory nerve [sic]' is a far more complicated circuit than your post suggests.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>That is incorrect .
The ascending fibers from the cochlear nuclei have decussating and non-decussating fiber bundles .
The 'auditory nerve [ sic ] ' is a far more complicated circuit than your post suggests .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>That is incorrect.
The ascending fibers from the cochlear nuclei have decussating and non-decussating fiber bundles.
The 'auditory nerve [sic]' is a far more complicated circuit than your post suggests.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463065</id>
	<title>I don't listen to anyone...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245867720000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>"Talk to the hand"</htmltext>
<tokenext>" Talk to the hand "</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"Talk to the hand"</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462945</id>
	<title>Alternate explanation</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245866220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Who is to say this has anything to do with appealing to the "more logical" side of the brain? A more plausible explanation to me is that most people are right handed.  When you ask them in their left ear, you are infringing on the space of their weaker, more vulnerable side, making them uncomfortable and less receptive.  When you ask them into their right ear, they feel more in control, and willing to give you a smoke.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Who is to say this has anything to do with appealing to the " more logical " side of the brain ?
A more plausible explanation to me is that most people are right handed .
When you ask them in their left ear , you are infringing on the space of their weaker , more vulnerable side , making them uncomfortable and less receptive .
When you ask them into their right ear , they feel more in control , and willing to give you a smoke .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Who is to say this has anything to do with appealing to the "more logical" side of the brain?
A more plausible explanation to me is that most people are right handed.
When you ask them in their left ear, you are infringing on the space of their weaker, more vulnerable side, making them uncomfortable and less receptive.
When you ask them into their right ear, they feel more in control, and willing to give you a smoke.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463381</id>
	<title>Old old news.</title>
	<author>Hurricane78</author>
	<datestamp>1245871500000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>That news is so old, I read about it in a magazine in 2002. And back then, it was said that it had been know for a long time.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>That news is so old , I read about it in a magazine in 2002 .
And back then , it was said that it had been know for a long time .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>That news is so old, I read about it in a magazine in 2002.
And back then, it was said that it had been know for a long time.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462969</id>
	<title>Personal Insight</title>
	<author>longhairedgnome</author>
	<datestamp>1245866520000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>Several years ago I went shooting with a Mosin Nagant carbine and was foolish enough not to bring hearing protection...  120 rounds <br>later my ears still ring to this day, I'd have to guesstimate my hearing loss in my right ear about 25\%  I haven't been able to afford to have<br> it tested.  Bring hearing protection when you shoot!</htmltext>
<tokenext>Several years ago I went shooting with a Mosin Nagant carbine and was foolish enough not to bring hearing protection... 120 rounds later my ears still ring to this day , I 'd have to guesstimate my hearing loss in my right ear about 25 \ % I have n't been able to afford to have it tested .
Bring hearing protection when you shoot !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Several years ago I went shooting with a Mosin Nagant carbine and was foolish enough not to bring hearing protection...  120 rounds later my ears still ring to this day, I'd have to guesstimate my hearing loss in my right ear about 25\%  I haven't been able to afford to have it tested.
Bring hearing protection when you shoot!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463943</id>
	<title>Left-handed</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245921720000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I hold my phone to the ear that doesn't require me to reach around my fucking <em>face</em>.</p><p>But meh. Maybe that's why I'm so short with stupid people on the telephone.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I hold my phone to the ear that does n'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 .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464203</id>
	<title>Re:I'm surprised</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245924660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I remember that, years ago, we used to all say that American males were more deaf in their left ears from driving around with the windows open. Italians would be in the same situation. If this were true, then a test in the UK should find more bias in the opposite direction due to driving right-hand-drive cars.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I remember that , years ago , we used to all say that American males were more deaf in their left ears from driving around with the windows open .
Italians would be in the same situation .
If this were true , then a test in the UK should find more bias in the opposite direction due to driving right-hand-drive cars .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I remember that, years ago, we used to all say that American males were more deaf in their left ears from driving around with the windows open.
Italians would be in the same situation.
If this were true, then a test in the UK should find more bias in the opposite direction due to driving right-hand-drive cars.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462771</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465787</id>
	<title>My Wife</title>
	<author>morcego</author>
	<datestamp>1245941760000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Ok, my wife is almost deaf on her right ear, while having perfect hearing on the left one<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...<br>humm, that explains a lot.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Ok , my wife is almost deaf on her right ear , while having perfect hearing on the left one ...humm , that explains a lot .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Ok, my wife is almost deaf on her right ear, while having perfect hearing on the left one ...humm, that explains a lot.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465703</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>DJRumpy</author>
	<datestamp>1245941280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Either I missed it or the article didn't specify, but it seems like hearing would be processed in a central part of the brain (either left or right), and not each ear individually handled by one side of the brain and vice versa. This doesn't make much sense to me.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Either I missed it or the article did n't specify , but it seems like hearing would be processed in a central part of the brain ( either left or right ) , and not each ear individually handled by one side of the brain and vice versa .
This does n't make much sense to me .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Either I missed it or the article didn't specify, but it seems like hearing would be processed in a central part of the brain (either left or right), and not each ear individually handled by one side of the brain and vice versa.
This doesn't make much sense to me.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28473943</id>
	<title>Re:whether or not this is true</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245930900000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Also, on the left breast it is easier for the baby to hear the parent's heart beat which has a potentially calming and enveloping effect.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Also , on the left breast it is easier for the baby to hear the parent 's heart beat which has a potentially calming and enveloping effect .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Also, on the left breast it is easier for the baby to hear the parent's heart beat which has a potentially calming and enveloping effect.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463635</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465387</id>
	<title>Re:Riiiight...</title>
	<author>Ma8thew</author>
	<datestamp>1245939540000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>You are drawing this conclusion, not from the article itself, but second hand, from a journalist, who may have talked to someone who has read the article. I might be able to discuss some of your concerns better, but <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/123t3782704t876v/?p=04b2658a66054715a2f52c9fdf37d94b&amp;pi=24" title="springerlink.com">the article</a> [springerlink.com] costs $34. However, as someone with a passing knowledge of statistics, I can say your outright rejection of sample size is unscientific. A small sample size may be counteracted by very strong results, and without seeing the hypothesis tests the authors of the article doubtless performed, you cannot simply look at a sample and say 'that is too small' (unless it is absurdly small, eg, less than 20).</p><p>The free abstract also indicates that the investigation was performed in three phases, with the portion in the night club being used to confirm the results produced in a lab setting, although whether these results were double blind, I cannot say without having read the article.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>You are drawing this conclusion , not from the article itself , but second hand , from a journalist , who may have talked to someone who has read the article .
I might be able to discuss some of your concerns better , but the article [ springerlink.com ] costs $ 34 .
However , as someone with a passing knowledge of statistics , I can say your outright rejection of sample size is unscientific .
A small sample size may be counteracted by very strong results , and without seeing the hypothesis tests the authors of the article doubtless performed , you can not simply look at a sample and say 'that is too small ' ( unless it is absurdly small , eg , less than 20 ) .The free abstract also indicates that the investigation was performed in three phases , with the portion in the night club being used to confirm the results produced in a lab setting , although whether these results were double blind , I can not say without having read the article .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>You are drawing this conclusion, not from the article itself, but second hand, from a journalist, who may have talked to someone who has read the article.
I might be able to discuss some of your concerns better, but the article [springerlink.com] costs $34.
However, as someone with a passing knowledge of statistics, I can say your outright rejection of sample size is unscientific.
A small sample size may be counteracted by very strong results, and without seeing the hypothesis tests the authors of the article doubtless performed, you cannot simply look at a sample and say 'that is too small' (unless it is absurdly small, eg, less than 20).The free abstract also indicates that the investigation was performed in three phases, with the portion in the night club being used to confirm the results produced in a lab setting, although whether these results were double blind, I cannot say without having read the article.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463267</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28488063</id>
	<title>Which Ear?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1246009740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>OK, the important question is; if I'm whispering sweet nothings into my girlfriend's (spouse, boyfriend, special other, you pick the term); if I want some action tonight, left or right ear?</htmltext>
<tokenext>OK , the important question is ; if I 'm whispering sweet nothings into my girlfriend 's ( spouse , boyfriend , special other , you pick the term ) ; if I want some action tonight , left or right ear ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>OK, the important question is; if I'm whispering sweet nothings into my girlfriend's (spouse, boyfriend, special other, you pick the term); if I want some action tonight, left or right ear?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465897</id>
	<title>dnuske</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245942360000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>maybe it is talk to the right ear, so we can say: you asked me in the wrong ear, try the other.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>maybe it is talk to the right ear , so we can say : you asked me in the wrong ear , try the other .
; )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>maybe it is talk to the right ear, so we can say: you asked me in the wrong ear, try the other.
;)</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464743</id>
	<title>And if you want a no...</title>
	<author>Snaller</author>
	<datestamp>1245933660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Studies also found that if you want a no, talking to the hand is the best option!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Studies also found that if you want a no , talking to the hand is the best option !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Studies also found that if you want a no, talking to the hand is the best option!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463425</id>
	<title>Re:I'm surprised</title>
	<author>UncleTogie</author>
	<datestamp>1245872040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Works for me.</p><p>No, really. I'm mostly deaf, and find I have a much easier time "translating" what I hear if I have the phone to my right ear, rather than the left. According to the audiologists, the loss is roughly equal in both ears, so it's not a matter of it being easier to hear.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Works for me.No , really .
I 'm mostly deaf , and find I have a much easier time " translating " what I hear if I have the phone to my right ear , rather than the left .
According to the audiologists , the loss is roughly equal in both ears , so it 's not a matter of it being easier to hear .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Works for me.No, really.
I'm mostly deaf, and find I have a much easier time "translating" what I hear if I have the phone to my right ear, rather than the left.
According to the audiologists, the loss is roughly equal in both ears, so it's not a matter of it being easier to hear.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462841</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463845</id>
	<title>Old Knowledge</title>
	<author>tgzuke</author>
	<datestamp>1245963420000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>Right-ear advantage has been well-studied before (see Wikipedia's page on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotic\_listening" title="wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow">dichotic listening</a> [wikipedia.org] tests for details). I remember it being presented as fact in my intro linguistics course 10 years ago. I recall that class also noting, however, that people who learn tonal languages such as Mandarin as a first language have a left-ear advantage instead [citation needed].</htmltext>
<tokenext>Right-ear advantage has been well-studied before ( see Wikipedia 's page on dichotic listening [ wikipedia.org ] tests for details ) .
I remember it being presented as fact in my intro linguistics course 10 years ago .
I recall that class also noting , however , that people who learn tonal languages such as Mandarin as a first language have a left-ear advantage instead [ citation needed ] .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Right-ear advantage has been well-studied before (see Wikipedia's page on dichotic listening [wikipedia.org] tests for details).
I remember it being presented as fact in my intro linguistics course 10 years ago.
I recall that class also noting, however, that people who learn tonal languages such as Mandarin as a first language have a left-ear advantage instead [citation needed].</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465157</id>
	<title>Re:Correlation != Causality</title>
	<author>adamjcoon</author>
	<datestamp>1245937860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>My question is, how many of the people that offered the cigarette were drunk? And how many were relatively unattractive people being questioned by a beatiful woman or hunky man? Taking it one step further, I wouldn't be afraid to bet that if I hired some female models to ask men for a favor from their left ear, and some gangly she-males to ask the same men from their right ear, I would find some results that conflict with this study. Nice try though!

Oh yea, and I am a fellow right-hander, and I <i>naturally</i> hold the phone to my left ear...</htmltext>
<tokenext>My question is , how many of the people that offered the cigarette were drunk ?
And how many were relatively unattractive people being questioned by a beatiful woman or hunky man ?
Taking it one step further , I would n't be afraid to bet that if I hired some female models to ask men for a favor from their left ear , and some gangly she-males to ask the same men from their right ear , I would find some results that conflict with this study .
Nice try though !
Oh yea , and I am a fellow right-hander , and I naturally hold the phone to my left ear.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>My question is, how many of the people that offered the cigarette were drunk?
And how many were relatively unattractive people being questioned by a beatiful woman or hunky man?
Taking it one step further, I wouldn't be afraid to bet that if I hired some female models to ask men for a favor from their left ear, and some gangly she-males to ask the same men from their right ear, I would find some results that conflict with this study.
Nice try though!
Oh yea, and I am a fellow right-hander, and I naturally hold the phone to my left ear...</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462757</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463379</id>
	<title>Don't got one</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245871500000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I'm deaf in one ear, you insensitive clod!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm deaf in one ear , you insensitive clod !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm deaf in one ear, you insensitive clod!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466853</id>
	<title>It sounds to me...</title>
	<author>BenSchuarmer</author>
	<datestamp>1245947220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Like this research was just an excuse to hang out in nightclubs.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Like this research was just an excuse to hang out in nightclubs .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Like this research was just an excuse to hang out in nightclubs.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467245</id>
	<title>I Call B.S.</title>
	<author>Nom du Keyboard</author>
	<datestamp>1245949080000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I call B.S. on this.  Consider the following very common scenario:<br> <br>
Man driving car sitting in front left seat.<br>
Wife on his right giving directions into his right ear.<br>
Does he still get lost?<br>
PROFIT!</htmltext>
<tokenext>I call B.S .
on this .
Consider the following very common scenario : Man driving car sitting in front left seat .
Wife on his right giving directions into his right ear .
Does he still get lost ?
PROFIT !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I call B.S.
on this.
Consider the following very common scenario: 
Man driving car sitting in front left seat.
Wife on his right giving directions into his right ear.
Does he still get lost?
PROFIT!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467315</id>
	<title>Right ear majority my ear</title>
	<author>cyberchondriac</author>
	<datestamp>1245949380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I'm right handed but have always heard better and more clearly from my left ear.  Consequently, I use my left ear to talk on the phone, and so do the majority of people I know.  <br>
But then, my hemispheres are also supposedly uncommonly well balanced, according to the popular Internet test,  "brain.exe".  FWIW.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm right handed but have always heard better and more clearly from my left ear .
Consequently , I use my left ear to talk on the phone , and so do the majority of people I know .
But then , my hemispheres are also supposedly uncommonly well balanced , according to the popular Internet test , " brain.exe " .
FWIW .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm right handed but have always heard better and more clearly from my left ear.
Consequently, I use my left ear to talk on the phone, and so do the majority of people I know.
But then, my hemispheres are also supposedly uncommonly well balanced, according to the popular Internet test,  "brain.exe".
FWIW.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466555</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>bootz15</author>
	<datestamp>1245945660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Redundant</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>"We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear."
<br><nobr> <wbr></nobr>...me too!</htmltext>
<tokenext>" We can also see this tendency when people use the phone , most will naturally hold it to their right ear .
" ...me too !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.
"
 ...me too!</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463033</id>
	<title>Re:Anonymous Coward</title>
	<author>BluBrick</author>
	<datestamp>1245867420000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>So that's where the term "Right hand" and "Right hand man comes from?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:D</p></div><p>Uh, no.  If someone is your right hand man, he's on your right hand side and would generally have his <i>left closer to you, not his right.</i></p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>So that 's where the term " Right hand " and " Right hand man comes from ?
: DUh , no .
If someone is your right hand man , he 's on your right hand side and would generally have his left closer to you , not his right .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So that's where the term "Right hand" and "Right hand man comes from?
:DUh, no.
If someone is your right hand man, he's on your right hand side and would generally have his left closer to you, not his right.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462801</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467015</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245948120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>Correct the data for laterality (right hand preference in majority of the population), then maybe the results will be interesting. Even then, the explanation is bull. Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically. Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.</p></div><p>This is somewhat incorrect.  Unlike most of the sensory input to the body, which is transmitted to the contralateral (opposite) side of the brain, auditory input is bilateral once you get past the cochlear ganglion.  Which also makes this entire line of inquiry pretty bullshit.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Correct the data for laterality ( right hand preference in majority of the population ) , then maybe the results will be interesting .
Even then , the explanation is bull .
Unlike sight , the auditory system does n't work cross-hemispherically .
Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.This is somewhat incorrect .
Unlike most of the sensory input to the body , which is transmitted to the contralateral ( opposite ) side of the brain , auditory input is bilateral once you get past the cochlear ganglion .
Which also makes this entire line of inquiry pretty bullshit .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Correct the data for laterality (right hand preference in majority of the population), then maybe the results will be interesting.
Even then, the explanation is bull.
Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically.
Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.This is somewhat incorrect.
Unlike most of the sensory input to the body, which is transmitted to the contralateral (opposite) side of the brain, auditory input is bilateral once you get past the cochlear ganglion.
Which also makes this entire line of inquiry pretty bullshit.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462841</id>
	<title>Re:I'm surprised</title>
	<author>Banzai042</author>
	<datestamp>1245865020000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I think it is supposed to come from which side of the brain the ear is primarily connected to, with the right ear being connected to the "logical" side of the brain, while the left ear is connected to the "Creative" side of the brain, so the right ear is better for conversational audio, and the left ear is better for musical type audio.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I think it is supposed to come from which side of the brain the ear is primarily connected to , with the right ear being connected to the " logical " side of the brain , while the left ear is connected to the " Creative " side of the brain , so the right ear is better for conversational audio , and the left ear is better for musical type audio .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I think it is supposed to come from which side of the brain the ear is primarily connected to, with the right ear being connected to the "logical" side of the brain, while the left ear is connected to the "Creative" side of the brain, so the right ear is better for conversational audio, and the left ear is better for musical type audio.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462771</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466193</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>drinkypoo</author>
	<datestamp>1245943800000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I hold the phone to my left ear, and I'm right-handed. I do consider myself to be creative, though; maybe I'm just trying to keep my phone conversations free-form.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I hold the phone to my left ear , and I 'm right-handed .
I do consider myself to be creative , though ; maybe I 'm just trying to keep my phone conversations free-form .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I hold the phone to my left ear, and I'm right-handed.
I do consider myself to be creative, though; maybe I'm just trying to keep my phone conversations free-form.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463817</id>
	<title>Cigarettes???</title>
	<author>r1d3r</author>
	<datestamp>1245963060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Thats weired.
Since when you go to night club and ask for cigaretts?</htmltext>
<tokenext>Thats weired .
Since when you go to night club and ask for cigaretts ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Thats weired.
Since when you go to night club and ask for cigaretts?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28468599</id>
	<title>Re:dextrocardia</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245954120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>&gt; My girlfriend...</p><p>Sorry, I lost you there. Can you rephrase?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>&gt; My girlfriend...Sorry , I lost you there .
Can you rephrase ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>&gt; My girlfriend...Sorry, I lost you there.
Can you rephrase?</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463185</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463407</id>
	<title>Re:I'm surprised</title>
	<author>fbjon</author>
	<datestamp>1245871800000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I find it interesting, then, that orchestras are arranged with the violin sections on the left and lower parts on the right looking from the audience.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I find it interesting , then , that orchestras are arranged with the violin sections on the left and lower parts on the right looking from the audience .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I find it interesting, then, that orchestras are arranged with the violin sections on the left and lower parts on the right looking from the audience.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462841</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28469245</id>
	<title>Interesting..</title>
	<author>SlashDev</author>
	<datestamp>1245956400000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>... now all we have to do to prevent teens from being affected by harmful song lyrics, is to mute the right audio channel.</htmltext>
<tokenext>... now all we have to do to prevent teens from being affected by harmful song lyrics , is to mute the right audio channel .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... now all we have to do to prevent teens from being affected by harmful song lyrics, is to mute the right audio channel.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464389</id>
	<title>Why would i want to talk to the left side?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245927180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I like talking to the right side, it makes it easier to influence people and have interesting conversations with people.</p><p>The left side is boring.<br>I don't care that they discovered Yet Another unstable element, just show me the damn porn of Ununbium having electron sex with Californium, exploding in a glorious finish, then Californium complaining that Ununbium was too quick.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I like talking to the right side , it makes it easier to influence people and have interesting conversations with people.The left side is boring.I do n't care that they discovered Yet Another unstable element , just show me the damn porn of Ununbium having electron sex with Californium , exploding in a glorious finish , then Californium complaining that Ununbium was too quick .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I like talking to the right side, it makes it easier to influence people and have interesting conversations with people.The left side is boring.I don't care that they discovered Yet Another unstable element, just show me the damn porn of Ununbium having electron sex with Californium, exploding in a glorious finish, then Californium complaining that Ununbium was too quick.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28469993</id>
	<title>Phone "most naturally" on the right?  What?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245959280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>In Italy maybe.</p><p>In my experience most people are right-handed and use their left hand to hold the phone to their left ear.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>In Italy maybe.In my experience most people are right-handed and use their left hand to hold the phone to their left ear .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>In Italy maybe.In my experience most people are right-handed and use their left hand to hold the phone to their left ear.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464871</id>
	<title>Audio Stroop effect</title>
	<author>Richard Kirk</author>
	<datestamp>1245935520000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>
The Stroop effect is when you read words that are the names of colours, but the letters are coloured differently. You can read out the words with the right eye, but change over to the left eye and you will start saying the colours of the letters and not the words. Both sides of the brain get the same signal, but the nearer side gets it first and tends to jump in with its interpretation, which may not be the one you are wanting.
</p><p>
If you have a voice saying 'high' or 'low' in a high or low voice, then you can get the same thing but with sound. The right ear will hear the words, but the left one can react to the pitch.
</p><p>
I am not sure how this relates to the work of the Institute of Cadging Smokes of Central Italy. If the sound system was turned up, then the user may be lipreading as well as listening, in which case the different delay in the sound and sight by approaching from the 'wrong side' may be more of a factor than what side the speech center is on, or whether they are more suggestible.
</p><p>
We could test this. Apparently some early developing musicians have their speech processing on the other side of the brain. This may impair their ability to describe a logical process, but gives then an enhanced ability to understand complex sounds and emotions. What good it is can be debated, but the flipped speech centers show up on a brain scan. Find one of these people, and see how many cigs you get.
</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The Stroop effect is when you read words that are the names of colours , but the letters are coloured differently .
You can read out the words with the right eye , but change over to the left eye and you will start saying the colours of the letters and not the words .
Both sides of the brain get the same signal , but the nearer side gets it first and tends to jump in with its interpretation , which may not be the one you are wanting .
If you have a voice saying 'high ' or 'low ' in a high or low voice , then you can get the same thing but with sound .
The right ear will hear the words , but the left one can react to the pitch .
I am not sure how this relates to the work of the Institute of Cadging Smokes of Central Italy .
If the sound system was turned up , then the user may be lipreading as well as listening , in which case the different delay in the sound and sight by approaching from the 'wrong side ' may be more of a factor than what side the speech center is on , or whether they are more suggestible .
We could test this .
Apparently some early developing musicians have their speech processing on the other side of the brain .
This may impair their ability to describe a logical process , but gives then an enhanced ability to understand complex sounds and emotions .
What good it is can be debated , but the flipped speech centers show up on a brain scan .
Find one of these people , and see how many cigs you get .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
The Stroop effect is when you read words that are the names of colours, but the letters are coloured differently.
You can read out the words with the right eye, but change over to the left eye and you will start saying the colours of the letters and not the words.
Both sides of the brain get the same signal, but the nearer side gets it first and tends to jump in with its interpretation, which may not be the one you are wanting.
If you have a voice saying 'high' or 'low' in a high or low voice, then you can get the same thing but with sound.
The right ear will hear the words, but the left one can react to the pitch.
I am not sure how this relates to the work of the Institute of Cadging Smokes of Central Italy.
If the sound system was turned up, then the user may be lipreading as well as listening, in which case the different delay in the sound and sight by approaching from the 'wrong side' may be more of a factor than what side the speech center is on, or whether they are more suggestible.
We could test this.
Apparently some early developing musicians have their speech processing on the other side of the brain.
This may impair their ability to describe a logical process, but gives then an enhanced ability to understand complex sounds and emotions.
What good it is can be debated, but the flipped speech centers show up on a brain scan.
Find one of these people, and see how many cigs you get.
</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462759</id>
	<title>hoax?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>this sounds like b.s.</p><p>also, most people are right handed, that is why they hold a phone to their right ear.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>this sounds like b.s.also , most people are right handed , that is why they hold a phone to their right ear .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>this sounds like b.s.also, most people are right handed, that is why they hold a phone to their right ear.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464575</id>
	<title>I am stone deaf in my right ear...</title>
	<author>McKeegan</author>
	<datestamp>1245930780000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>... ask away!</htmltext>
<tokenext>... ask away !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... ask away!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464667</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>hairyfeet</author>
	<datestamp>1245932280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>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.</p><p>

 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.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>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 .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463005</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463117</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245868260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I don't have a phone, you insensitive clod</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I do n't have a phone , you insensitive clod</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I don't have a phone, you insensitive clod</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28469279</id>
	<title>smoker's ear</title>
	<author>russell.sawyer</author>
	<datestamp>1245956520000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Couldn't this also mean people who smoke have bad hearing in their left ears.  Maybe that's the first area of the brain to die off...</htmltext>
<tokenext>Could n't this also mean people who smoke have bad hearing in their left ears .
Maybe that 's the first area of the brain to die off.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Couldn't this also mean people who smoke have bad hearing in their left ears.
Maybe that's the first area of the brain to die off...</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463187</id>
	<title>Re:Correlation != Causality</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245869160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Fortunately, the title ("Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear") only requires correlation to work.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Fortunately , the title ( " Need a Favor ?
Talk To My Right Ear " ) only requires correlation to work .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Fortunately, the title ("Need a Favor?
Talk To My Right Ear") only requires correlation to work.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462757</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28469517</id>
	<title>Great comment but...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245957540000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>the fact that everyone places the baby on the left side of their chest has more to do with th fact that thats where your heart than any thing related to the babys brain. Your heart beat calms the baby.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>the fact that everyone places the baby on the left side of their chest has more to do with th fact that thats where your heart than any thing related to the babys brain .
Your heart beat calms the baby .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>the fact that everyone places the baby on the left side of their chest has more to do with th fact that thats where your heart than any thing related to the babys brain.
Your heart beat calms the baby.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463635</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463197</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245869280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>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!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>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 !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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!</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28477037</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>realperseus</author>
	<datestamp>1245947940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I work for a health insurance company. We have about 1000 employees. Most folks have their phone on the <b>Left</b> side of their cube. <p>
During transfers and moves, I do ask these users where they would like their phone in their new work area. Over 80\% want their phone on the left side of their cube.</p><p>
These are observations seen over 6 years at the job.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I work for a health insurance company .
We have about 1000 employees .
Most folks have their phone on the Left side of their cube .
During transfers and moves , I do ask these users where they would like their phone in their new work area .
Over 80 \ % want their phone on the left side of their cube .
These are observations seen over 6 years at the job .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I work for a health insurance company.
We have about 1000 employees.
Most folks have their phone on the Left side of their cube.
During transfers and moves, I do ask these users where they would like their phone in their new work area.
Over 80\% want their phone on the left side of their cube.
These are observations seen over 6 years at the job.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463421</id>
	<title>Hand Solo</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245871920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>You know you want this...<br>http://www.handsolomobile.com/</p><p>-Merv</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>You know you want this...http : //www.handsolomobile.com/-Merv</tokentext>
<sentencetext>You know you want this...http://www.handsolomobile.com/-Merv</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467831</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>clone53421</author>
	<datestamp>1245951300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Even if it <em>is</em> directly linked to the preference toward right-handedness it's still an interesting result. Of course it would also be interesting to do a sample using only people known to be left-handed and see if the tendency amongst them was to favour the left ear. Either way, your take-away value from this study is the knowledge that most people (possibly because most people are right handed &ndash; but still, most people) will be slightly more amenable to being approached on their right side.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Even if it is directly linked to the preference toward right-handedness it 's still an interesting result .
Of course it would also be interesting to do a sample using only people known to be left-handed and see if the tendency amongst them was to favour the left ear .
Either way , your take-away value from this study is the knowledge that most people ( possibly because most people are right handed    but still , most people ) will be slightly more amenable to being approached on their right side .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Even if it is directly linked to the preference toward right-handedness it's still an interesting result.
Of course it would also be interesting to do a sample using only people known to be left-handed and see if the tendency amongst them was to favour the left ear.
Either way, your take-away value from this study is the knowledge that most people (possibly because most people are right handed – but still, most people) will be slightly more amenable to being approached on their right side.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463799</id>
	<title>Re:Advisers to the right, losers to the left</title>
	<author>Mad-cat</author>
	<datestamp>1245962880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>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!</p></div><p>I guess their left hand man is busy listening to them.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>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 ! I guess their left hand man is busy listening to them .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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!I guess their left hand man is busy listening to them.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463015</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462859</id>
	<title>not quite the same</title>
	<author>Tablizer</author>
	<datestamp>1245865200000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"Talk to the hand" seems a bit more catchy, though.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" Talk to the hand " seems a bit more catchy , though .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"Talk to the hand" seems a bit more catchy, though.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462763</id>
	<title>I see a problem in the analysis</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>  What if you are a lefty?  I use my left ear on for the phone.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>What if you are a lefty ?
I use my left ear on for the phone .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>  What if you are a lefty?
I use my left ear on for the phone.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463329</id>
	<title>Re:Correlation != Causality</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245870660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Despite being right-handed, I use my left ear. Whether it is holding my candybar-shaped phone to my left ear, or using a headset on my left ear, I use my left ear.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Despite being right-handed , I use my left ear .
Whether it is holding my candybar-shaped phone to my left ear , or using a headset on my left ear , I use my left ear .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Despite being right-handed, I use my left ear.
Whether it is holding my candybar-shaped phone to my left ear, or using a headset on my left ear, I use my left ear.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462757</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464017</id>
	<title>Logistics</title>
	<author>dbcad7</author>
	<datestamp>1245922680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>How do you ask someone in a noisy nightclub "specifically in one ear" insuring that the other ear is not hearing ?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.. and how do they know that the results are specific to sound and not visual ?.. perhaps someone approaching you from your right side makes you less defensive than from your left side.</htmltext>
<tokenext>How do you ask someone in a noisy nightclub " specifically in one ear " insuring that the other ear is not hearing ?
.. and how do they know that the results are specific to sound and not visual ? . .
perhaps someone approaching you from your right side makes you less defensive than from your left side .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>How do you ask someone in a noisy nightclub "specifically in one ear" insuring that the other ear is not hearing ?
.. and how do they know that the results are specific to sound and not visual ?..
perhaps someone approaching you from your right side makes you less defensive than from your left side.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462923</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245865920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>&gt;Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically.</p><p>This article just got owned. No more comments needed.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>&gt; Unlike sight , the auditory system does n't work cross-hemispherically.This article just got owned .
No more comments needed .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>&gt;Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically.This article just got owned.
No more comments needed.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464547</id>
	<title>Yeah I can make up bullshit too</title>
	<author>TheLink</author>
	<datestamp>1245930240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Yeah I can make up bullshit explanations too.<br><br>For instance most people are right handed, so usually their stronger and tougher side is their right side. Thus they are more comfortable if a stranger approaches them from the right than from the left (the weaker side).<br><br>When people feel more comfortable with you, they are more likely to give you stuff.<br><br>See I can make up explanations too.<br><br>In fact, I think my explanation makes more sense. Since willingness to give stuff to people is very often not tied to logic or understanding at all. I bet when giving out something like a single cig the decision is more emotional (gut feel)  than logical. You seldom bother using logic for such stuff.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Yeah I can make up bullshit explanations too.For instance most people are right handed , so usually their stronger and tougher side is their right side .
Thus they are more comfortable if a stranger approaches them from the right than from the left ( the weaker side ) .When people feel more comfortable with you , they are more likely to give you stuff.See I can make up explanations too.In fact , I think my explanation makes more sense .
Since willingness to give stuff to people is very often not tied to logic or understanding at all .
I bet when giving out something like a single cig the decision is more emotional ( gut feel ) than logical .
You seldom bother using logic for such stuff .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Yeah I can make up bullshit explanations too.For instance most people are right handed, so usually their stronger and tougher side is their right side.
Thus they are more comfortable if a stranger approaches them from the right than from the left (the weaker side).When people feel more comfortable with you, they are more likely to give you stuff.See I can make up explanations too.In fact, I think my explanation makes more sense.
Since willingness to give stuff to people is very often not tied to logic or understanding at all.
I bet when giving out something like a single cig the decision is more emotional (gut feel)  than logical.
You seldom bother using logic for such stuff.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463009</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466285</id>
	<title>Re:Double Blind?</title>
	<author>twoshortplanks</author>
	<datestamp>1245944220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Move the test to a lab environment, and use a pair of stereo headphones and a computer to control (and log) which ear is being talked to unbeknownst to the person doing the talking.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Move the test to a lab environment , and use a pair of stereo headphones and a computer to control ( and log ) which ear is being talked to unbeknownst to the person doing the talking .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Move the test to a lab environment, and use a pair of stereo headphones and a computer to control (and log) which ear is being talked to unbeknownst to the person doing the talking.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464515</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28469703</id>
	<title>Re:It explains cars too!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245958260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Except in jolly old England where steering wheels are on the wrong side<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Except in jolly old England where steering wheels are on the wrong side ; - )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Except in jolly old England where steering wheels are on the wrong side ;-)</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464697</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28468053</id>
	<title>Re:dextrocardia</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245952080000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Dextrocardia means "heart on the right", not left. Most of us have our heart on the left, which would be called something like "sinestrocardia". Either you made a typo, or she's definitely not your girlfriend, or - this being Slashdot - both.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Dextrocardia means " heart on the right " , not left .
Most of us have our heart on the left , which would be called something like " sinestrocardia " .
Either you made a typo , or she 's definitely not your girlfriend , or - this being Slashdot - both .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Dextrocardia means "heart on the right", not left.
Most of us have our heart on the left, which would be called something like "sinestrocardia".
Either you made a typo, or she's definitely not your girlfriend, or - this being Slashdot - both.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463185</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462933</id>
	<title>Re:Double Blind?</title>
	<author>Miseph</author>
	<datestamp>1245866040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>That also strikes me as a terribly unscientific test... even in Italy, not everyone smokes, and even the ones who do may be out of cigarettes or in a location not conducive to smoking. did they also record the number of people who gave logical, but negative (ie. "I don't have any"), responses? What if they didn't ask for cigarettes until the end of the night, so they were in short supply?</p><p>What if people just got sick of them mooching and said no out of spite? As a former smoker, I can reasonably state that most are pretty generous to a point, but once you cross it they run out of sympathy very quickly... bumming cigarettes off of everyone you see can get you to that point very quickly.</p><p>Did they make sure to get an even mix of responses for males asking males, males asking females, females asking females and females asking males? Did they make sure not to have the person asking in left ears be the one with no social skills and bad breath? When I was a smoker, a cute girl had a MUCH better shot at getting a cigarette from me than, say, some whiny dude... given that this was done at nightclubs, and what many people actually go to nightclubs to (attemp to) do, this is actually a pretty major consideration that I somehow doubt they took into consideration.</p><p>And what the hell is with that sample size? 176 people? You went to 3 Italian nightclubs and could only find 176 smokers to ask for cigarettes between them? At least pretend you're trying to gather a statistically significant number of responses.</p><p>I'm not necessarily sure that they shouldn't have run any experiments simply because it is their hypothesis... but if they're going to claim some sort of success for it then they certainly need a better experiment than asking people for cigarettes at a nightclub. Honestly though, if nobody ever did scientists to test their own hypotheses, we'd probably still be in the Aristotelian phase of scientific concept.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>That also strikes me as a terribly unscientific test... even in Italy , not everyone smokes , and even the ones who do may be out of cigarettes or in a location not conducive to smoking .
did they also record the number of people who gave logical , but negative ( ie .
" I do n't have any " ) , responses ?
What if they did n't ask for cigarettes until the end of the night , so they were in short supply ? What if people just got sick of them mooching and said no out of spite ?
As a former smoker , I can reasonably state that most are pretty generous to a point , but once you cross it they run out of sympathy very quickly... bumming cigarettes off of everyone you see can get you to that point very quickly.Did they make sure to get an even mix of responses for males asking males , males asking females , females asking females and females asking males ?
Did they make sure not to have the person asking in left ears be the one with no social skills and bad breath ?
When I was a smoker , a cute girl had a MUCH better shot at getting a cigarette from me than , say , some whiny dude... given that this was done at nightclubs , and what many people actually go to nightclubs to ( attemp to ) do , this is actually a pretty major consideration that I somehow doubt they took into consideration.And what the hell is with that sample size ?
176 people ?
You went to 3 Italian nightclubs and could only find 176 smokers to ask for cigarettes between them ?
At least pretend you 're trying to gather a statistically significant number of responses.I 'm not necessarily sure that they should n't have run any experiments simply because it is their hypothesis... but if they 're going to claim some sort of success for it then they certainly need a better experiment than asking people for cigarettes at a nightclub .
Honestly though , if nobody ever did scientists to test their own hypotheses , we 'd probably still be in the Aristotelian phase of scientific concept .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>That also strikes me as a terribly unscientific test... even in Italy, not everyone smokes, and even the ones who do may be out of cigarettes or in a location not conducive to smoking.
did they also record the number of people who gave logical, but negative (ie.
"I don't have any"), responses?
What if they didn't ask for cigarettes until the end of the night, so they were in short supply?What if people just got sick of them mooching and said no out of spite?
As a former smoker, I can reasonably state that most are pretty generous to a point, but once you cross it they run out of sympathy very quickly... bumming cigarettes off of everyone you see can get you to that point very quickly.Did they make sure to get an even mix of responses for males asking males, males asking females, females asking females and females asking males?
Did they make sure not to have the person asking in left ears be the one with no social skills and bad breath?
When I was a smoker, a cute girl had a MUCH better shot at getting a cigarette from me than, say, some whiny dude... given that this was done at nightclubs, and what many people actually go to nightclubs to (attemp to) do, this is actually a pretty major consideration that I somehow doubt they took into consideration.And what the hell is with that sample size?
176 people?
You went to 3 Italian nightclubs and could only find 176 smokers to ask for cigarettes between them?
At least pretend you're trying to gather a statistically significant number of responses.I'm not necessarily sure that they shouldn't have run any experiments simply because it is their hypothesis... but if they're going to claim some sort of success for it then they certainly need a better experiment than asking people for cigarettes at a nightclub.
Honestly though, if nobody ever did scientists to test their own hypotheses, we'd probably still be in the Aristotelian phase of scientific concept.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462815</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463383</id>
	<title>I use a headset.</title>
	<author>CFD339</author>
	<datestamp>1245871500000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Clearly this is a flawed study.  It doesn't take my personal use case into account and therefore has no validity whatsoever.  I will, of course, begin to excoriate the authors of the study and make fun of anyone who agrees with it.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Clearly this is a flawed study .
It does n't take my personal use case into account and therefore has no validity whatsoever .
I will , of course , begin to excoriate the authors of the study and make fun of anyone who agrees with it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Clearly this is a flawed study.
It doesn't take my personal use case into account and therefore has no validity whatsoever.
I will, of course, begin to excoriate the authors of the study and make fun of anyone who agrees with it.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462889</id>
	<title>I don't think that's true</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245865500000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>My desk is set up so that my teammates are always on my right, but it's just as hard to remember what they say, as it was when they were on my left.</p><p>Now, if they use that fancy 'Trac' thingy we have and create some 'tickets'... That would make it easy.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>My desk is set up so that my teammates are always on my right , but it 's just as hard to remember what they say , as it was when they were on my left.Now , if they use that fancy 'Trac ' thingy we have and create some 'tickets'... That would make it easy .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>My desk is set up so that my teammates are always on my right, but it's just as hard to remember what they say, as it was when they were on my left.Now, if they use that fancy 'Trac' thingy we have and create some 'tickets'... That would make it easy.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464467</id>
	<title>Deaf</title>
	<author>ZankerH</author>
	<datestamp>1245928680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>So is my being deaf on the right ear an advantage or disadvantage in this case?</htmltext>
<tokenext>So is my being deaf on the right ear an advantage or disadvantage in this case ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So is my being deaf on the right ear an advantage or disadvantage in this case?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463009</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245867000000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Redundant</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Quite.</p><p>As it is easier for right handed people to have a cigarette to someone on their right, this would<br>make quite a simple answer here also - easily enough to skew statistics.</p><p>Of course it is very common these days to ignore other cause/effect possibilities in 'proving' ones<br>theory.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Quite.As it is easier for right handed people to have a cigarette to someone on their right , this wouldmake quite a simple answer here also - easily enough to skew statistics.Of course it is very common these days to ignore other cause/effect possibilities in 'proving ' onestheory .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Quite.As it is easier for right handed people to have a cigarette to someone on their right, this wouldmake quite a simple answer here also - easily enough to skew statistics.Of course it is very common these days to ignore other cause/effect possibilities in 'proving' onestheory.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464635</id>
	<title>Here's for hearing you, kid...</title>
	<author>yogibaer</author>
	<datestamp>1245931800000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>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)</htmltext>
<tokenext>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 )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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)</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464127</id>
	<title>I am stone-deaf in my right ear...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245923580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>... so ask away!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>... so ask away !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... so ask away!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464113</id>
	<title>pseudo-science</title>
	<author>ratonu</author>
	<datestamp>1245923400000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Another sample of pseudo-science in pseudo-press.
Even the example given is enough to identify the "pseudo" part.
If someone approaches me asking for a cigarette, my logic would tell me to NOT give him a cigarette, so appealing to my logic would have the opposite effect. And I am sure I am not the only one that, when logicaly assesing this cigarette situation, would say that I SHOULD refuse.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Another sample of pseudo-science in pseudo-press .
Even the example given is enough to identify the " pseudo " part .
If someone approaches me asking for a cigarette , my logic would tell me to NOT give him a cigarette , so appealing to my logic would have the opposite effect .
And I am sure I am not the only one that , when logicaly assesing this cigarette situation , would say that I SHOULD refuse .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Another sample of pseudo-science in pseudo-press.
Even the example given is enough to identify the "pseudo" part.
If someone approaches me asking for a cigarette, my logic would tell me to NOT give him a cigarette, so appealing to my logic would have the opposite effect.
And I am sure I am not the only one that, when logicaly assesing this cigarette situation, would say that I SHOULD refuse.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463333</id>
	<title>Re:Anonymous Coward</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245870720000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>No, "right hand man" comes from someone who needs to wash their right tube socks much more often than others.<br> <br>

Yes. Ewwwww.</htmltext>
<tokenext>No , " right hand man " comes from someone who needs to wash their right tube socks much more often than others .
Yes. Ewwwww .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>No, "right hand man" comes from someone who needs to wash their right tube socks much more often than others.
Yes. Ewwwww.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462801</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462977</id>
	<title>from the bene-gesserit-tricks dept.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245866580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>At least this one is nicer than the brain melting suffered from the ones that read the Dune prequels.</htmltext>
<tokenext>At least this one is nicer than the brain melting suffered from the ones that read the Dune prequels .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>At least this one is nicer than the brain melting suffered from the ones that read the Dune prequels.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465829</id>
	<title>Re:It explains cars too!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245942060000</datestamp>
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	<htmltext><p>I always wondered why after I got married I had to do all the driving.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I always wondered why after I got married I had to do all the driving .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I always wondered why after I got married I had to do all the driving.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463267</id>
	<title>Riiiight...</title>
	<author>Fizzl</author>
	<datestamp>1245870180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The method wasn't very scientificy, sample size was small and they skewed the results by "knowing" what kind of results they want.<br>I would have invented way more elaborate scheme to get an excuse to blow my grant money to nightclubbin</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The method was n't very scientificy , sample size was small and they skewed the results by " knowing " what kind of results they want.I would have invented way more elaborate scheme to get an excuse to blow my grant money to nightclubbin</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The method wasn't very scientificy, sample size was small and they skewed the results by "knowing" what kind of results they want.I would have invented way more elaborate scheme to get an excuse to blow my grant money to nightclubbin</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463001</id>
	<title>The only good thing about this study...</title>
	<author>yourassOA</author>
	<datestamp>1245866940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>is the picture of the hot chick talking in the dudes ear. Other than that this is completely bogus. I'm ambidextrous wrap your puny mind around that.</htmltext>
<tokenext>is the picture of the hot chick talking in the dudes ear .
Other than that this is completely bogus .
I 'm ambidextrous wrap your puny mind around that .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>is the picture of the hot chick talking in the dudes ear.
Other than that this is completely bogus.
I'm ambidextrous wrap your puny mind around that.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28470113</id>
	<title>Facts from the actual research article</title>
	<author>honkycat</author>
	<datestamp>1245959700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It may be too late in the discussion for this to get any notice, but I have access to the journal where this research was published and I thought I'd share a few details.  In summary, it is much better science than the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/. crowd seems to think, the researchers have done their homework, and I haven't seen any posts here that raise serious methodological issues that are not somehow addressed in the work.  This wasn't just some guys hanging out in a night club asking for cigarettes.</p><p>Basically, they had three studies.  The first was purely observational -- they "unobtrusively" observed interactions between people in the nightclub that started face-to-face and noted whether these progressed to talking in the right ear or the left ear.  They adjusted for gender of speaker/listener, and other bias.</p><p>The second study (which they refer to as "quasi-experimental") involved a female aware of the study but <i>unaware of the hypothesis</i> who would approach subjects (equal # male and female) face-to-face and say something unintelligible.  If the subject turned one ear, she would then ask for a cigarette in the ear they offered.  She always asked the same question, and only asked people whom she had not seen smoking (to prevent social effects that might bias people toward sharing).</p><p>In the third study (also "quasi-experimental"), which is the one referred to most here, the female (still unaware of the hypothesis) now approached subjects from the front, but instead of allowing the subject to choose the ear, she selected left or right ear.  Again, equal numbers of males/females were approached, and used the same question each time and still only approached subjects she had not seen smoking.</p><p>The second and third studies were performed at different times, so there's no effect of people getting sick of this chick bumming cigs, and there were a number of other controls.  In the first study, there was a conclusion that there is significant bias toward offering a particular ear.  In the second, there was no significant trend for complying with the request for a cigarette in right vs left ear.  In the third, several trends were found -- the main result announced in the thread that the right ear resulted in more positive outcomes, and also (not surprisingly) that men were more likely to offer a cigarette to the female when asked.</p><p>Anyway, this is not junk science.  There's a lot more to the study than the paragraph in the Telegraph told you about.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It may be too late in the discussion for this to get any notice , but I have access to the journal where this research was published and I thought I 'd share a few details .
In summary , it is much better science than the / .
crowd seems to think , the researchers have done their homework , and I have n't seen any posts here that raise serious methodological issues that are not somehow addressed in the work .
This was n't just some guys hanging out in a night club asking for cigarettes.Basically , they had three studies .
The first was purely observational -- they " unobtrusively " observed interactions between people in the nightclub that started face-to-face and noted whether these progressed to talking in the right ear or the left ear .
They adjusted for gender of speaker/listener , and other bias.The second study ( which they refer to as " quasi-experimental " ) involved a female aware of the study but unaware of the hypothesis who would approach subjects ( equal # male and female ) face-to-face and say something unintelligible .
If the subject turned one ear , she would then ask for a cigarette in the ear they offered .
She always asked the same question , and only asked people whom she had not seen smoking ( to prevent social effects that might bias people toward sharing ) .In the third study ( also " quasi-experimental " ) , which is the one referred to most here , the female ( still unaware of the hypothesis ) now approached subjects from the front , but instead of allowing the subject to choose the ear , she selected left or right ear .
Again , equal numbers of males/females were approached , and used the same question each time and still only approached subjects she had not seen smoking.The second and third studies were performed at different times , so there 's no effect of people getting sick of this chick bumming cigs , and there were a number of other controls .
In the first study , there was a conclusion that there is significant bias toward offering a particular ear .
In the second , there was no significant trend for complying with the request for a cigarette in right vs left ear .
In the third , several trends were found -- the main result announced in the thread that the right ear resulted in more positive outcomes , and also ( not surprisingly ) that men were more likely to offer a cigarette to the female when asked.Anyway , this is not junk science .
There 's a lot more to the study than the paragraph in the Telegraph told you about .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It may be too late in the discussion for this to get any notice, but I have access to the journal where this research was published and I thought I'd share a few details.
In summary, it is much better science than the /.
crowd seems to think, the researchers have done their homework, and I haven't seen any posts here that raise serious methodological issues that are not somehow addressed in the work.
This wasn't just some guys hanging out in a night club asking for cigarettes.Basically, they had three studies.
The first was purely observational -- they "unobtrusively" observed interactions between people in the nightclub that started face-to-face and noted whether these progressed to talking in the right ear or the left ear.
They adjusted for gender of speaker/listener, and other bias.The second study (which they refer to as "quasi-experimental") involved a female aware of the study but unaware of the hypothesis who would approach subjects (equal # male and female) face-to-face and say something unintelligible.
If the subject turned one ear, she would then ask for a cigarette in the ear they offered.
She always asked the same question, and only asked people whom she had not seen smoking (to prevent social effects that might bias people toward sharing).In the third study (also "quasi-experimental"), which is the one referred to most here, the female (still unaware of the hypothesis) now approached subjects from the front, but instead of allowing the subject to choose the ear, she selected left or right ear.
Again, equal numbers of males/females were approached, and used the same question each time and still only approached subjects she had not seen smoking.The second and third studies were performed at different times, so there's no effect of people getting sick of this chick bumming cigs, and there were a number of other controls.
In the first study, there was a conclusion that there is significant bias toward offering a particular ear.
In the second, there was no significant trend for complying with the request for a cigarette in right vs left ear.
In the third, several trends were found -- the main result announced in the thread that the right ear resulted in more positive outcomes, and also (not surprisingly) that men were more likely to offer a cigarette to the female when asked.Anyway, this is not junk science.
There's a lot more to the study than the paragraph in the Telegraph told you about.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462905</id>
	<title>Re:Correlation != Causality</title>
	<author>RicardoFjr</author>
	<datestamp>1245865740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
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	<htmltext>This was taught to me by my SGT Major in the Army, He said if you take to a soldier in the right ear as your going down the squad line the following person sees this and remembers the comment because it becomes repiticious and familiar.</htmltext>
<tokenext>This was taught to me by my SGT Major in the Army , He said if you take to a soldier in the right ear as your going down the squad line the following person sees this and remembers the comment because it becomes repiticious and familiar .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This was taught to me by my SGT Major in the Army, He said if you take to a soldier in the right ear as your going down the squad line the following person sees this and remembers the comment because it becomes repiticious and familiar.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464515</id>
	<title>Re:Double Blind?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245929640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>And how exactly should we test this blindly? The researcher must know what they are testing in advance for this type of study. Double blind makes the most sense when you could have a placebo or active pharmacological ingredient.  Please enlighten me, IAAS (I am a scientist).</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>And how exactly should we test this blindly ?
The researcher must know what they are testing in advance for this type of study .
Double blind makes the most sense when you could have a placebo or active pharmacological ingredient .
Please enlighten me , IAAS ( I am a scientist ) .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>And how exactly should we test this blindly?
The researcher must know what they are testing in advance for this type of study.
Double blind makes the most sense when you could have a placebo or active pharmacological ingredient.
Please enlighten me, IAAS (I am a scientist).</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462755</id>
	<title>I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext>...and I thought it was because I was right-handed!</htmltext>
<tokenext>...and I thought it was because I was right-handed !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>...and I thought it was because I was right-handed!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466809</id>
	<title>Re:dextrocardia</title>
	<author>Trifthen</author>
	<datestamp>1245946980000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I think you mean your girlfriend has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs\_inversus" title="wikipedia.org">Situs Inversus Totalis</a> [wikipedia.org].</p><p>Just because dextrocardia often presents with other flipped organs doesn't mean it describes the condition. I know because I <i>also</i> have dextrocardia, but without other organ mirroring. There are two major things which may affect your future together:</p><ol>
 <li>Situs Inversus can be caused by malfunctioning cellular cilia, which has been known to render sufferers infertile. This is easy enough to check, and can be countered by in-vitro fertilization, I believe.</li><li>Situs Inversus is actually <i>far</i> less dangerous than full-on dextrocardia. When the other organs aren't mirrored as well, the heart is often damaged during fetal development and almost always requires open-heart surgery to correct. Even then, quality of life will never be that of a normal person. My own surgery was in 1984, and that only corrected three of the seven major defects.</li></ol><p>So, be glad she doesn't just have dextocardia, but for longer-term, if you want kids, she might need to be checked.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I think you mean your girlfriend has Situs Inversus Totalis [ wikipedia.org ] .Just because dextrocardia often presents with other flipped organs does n't mean it describes the condition .
I know because I also have dextrocardia , but without other organ mirroring .
There are two major things which may affect your future together : Situs Inversus can be caused by malfunctioning cellular cilia , which has been known to render sufferers infertile .
This is easy enough to check , and can be countered by in-vitro fertilization , I believe.Situs Inversus is actually far less dangerous than full-on dextrocardia .
When the other organs are n't mirrored as well , the heart is often damaged during fetal development and almost always requires open-heart surgery to correct .
Even then , quality of life will never be that of a normal person .
My own surgery was in 1984 , and that only corrected three of the seven major defects.So , be glad she does n't just have dextocardia , but for longer-term , if you want kids , she might need to be checked .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I think you mean your girlfriend has Situs Inversus Totalis [wikipedia.org].Just because dextrocardia often presents with other flipped organs doesn't mean it describes the condition.
I know because I also have dextrocardia, but without other organ mirroring.
There are two major things which may affect your future together:
 Situs Inversus can be caused by malfunctioning cellular cilia, which has been known to render sufferers infertile.
This is easy enough to check, and can be countered by in-vitro fertilization, I believe.Situs Inversus is actually far less dangerous than full-on dextrocardia.
When the other organs aren't mirrored as well, the heart is often damaged during fetal development and almost always requires open-heart surgery to correct.
Even then, quality of life will never be that of a normal person.
My own surgery was in 1984, and that only corrected three of the seven major defects.So, be glad she doesn't just have dextocardia, but for longer-term, if you want kids, she might need to be checked.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464169</id>
	<title>Re:Anonymous Coward</title>
	<author>YourExperiment</author>
	<datestamp>1245924240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>And he would therefore be talking into your right ear, making you more susceptible to his suggestions (according to this article), hence him being your "right hand man".</htmltext>
<tokenext>And he would therefore be talking into your right ear , making you more susceptible to his suggestions ( according to this article ) , hence him being your " right hand man " .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>And he would therefore be talking into your right ear, making you more susceptible to his suggestions (according to this article), hence him being your "right hand man".</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28473999</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>jonadab</author>
	<datestamp>1245931080000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I think it partly depends on how you use it.<br><br>Growing up, I was strongly right-handed, to the extent that my left arm barely got used for anything at all, because it had no coordination, dexterity, or strength.  I'd use my left hand to hold something in place while working on it with my right (e.g., to hold the paper still on the desk while writing with the right hand), and that was about it.<br><br>I'm more balanced now, perhaps partly because I'm just a lot more physically coordinated in general (which really started to come together when I was in my twenties; yeah, I know that's several years later than average) but, I am convinced, also partly because of a series of increasingly challenging ways in which I exercised it.<br><br>When I first started doing puppetry, for instance, I only used my right hand, but then when I started needing to use arm rods, I switched the puppet to my left hand so that I could use it for the diction (the easier task at that point; this was pretty simple diction, open once per syllable type of stuff, and nothing fast) and work the rods with the right; later, when I was fairly experienced with the rods, I had to do a solo with a lot of unusually challenging diction (biting off words, near-closes, stretched consonants, that sort of thing), so I switched back to my right for the diction and learned to work the arm rods with the left hand.  Eventually, I reached the point where I could do either thing with either hand.<br><br>Typing is another activity that exercised my left-hand coordination considerably.<br><br>My right hand is still better, but not by nearly as wide a margin.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I think it partly depends on how you use it.Growing up , I was strongly right-handed , to the extent that my left arm barely got used for anything at all , because it had no coordination , dexterity , or strength .
I 'd use my left hand to hold something in place while working on it with my right ( e.g. , to hold the paper still on the desk while writing with the right hand ) , and that was about it.I 'm more balanced now , perhaps partly because I 'm just a lot more physically coordinated in general ( which really started to come together when I was in my twenties ; yeah , I know that 's several years later than average ) but , I am convinced , also partly because of a series of increasingly challenging ways in which I exercised it.When I first started doing puppetry , for instance , I only used my right hand , but then when I started needing to use arm rods , I switched the puppet to my left hand so that I could use it for the diction ( the easier task at that point ; this was pretty simple diction , open once per syllable type of stuff , and nothing fast ) and work the rods with the right ; later , when I was fairly experienced with the rods , I had to do a solo with a lot of unusually challenging diction ( biting off words , near-closes , stretched consonants , that sort of thing ) , so I switched back to my right for the diction and learned to work the arm rods with the left hand .
Eventually , I reached the point where I could do either thing with either hand.Typing is another activity that exercised my left-hand coordination considerably.My right hand is still better , but not by nearly as wide a margin .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I think it partly depends on how you use it.Growing up, I was strongly right-handed, to the extent that my left arm barely got used for anything at all, because it had no coordination, dexterity, or strength.
I'd use my left hand to hold something in place while working on it with my right (e.g., to hold the paper still on the desk while writing with the right hand), and that was about it.I'm more balanced now, perhaps partly because I'm just a lot more physically coordinated in general (which really started to come together when I was in my twenties; yeah, I know that's several years later than average) but, I am convinced, also partly because of a series of increasingly challenging ways in which I exercised it.When I first started doing puppetry, for instance, I only used my right hand, but then when I started needing to use arm rods, I switched the puppet to my left hand so that I could use it for the diction (the easier task at that point; this was pretty simple diction, open once per syllable type of stuff, and nothing fast) and work the rods with the right; later, when I was fairly experienced with the rods, I had to do a solo with a lot of unusually challenging diction (biting off words, near-closes, stretched consonants, that sort of thing), so I switched back to my right for the diction and learned to work the arm rods with the left hand.
Eventually, I reached the point where I could do either thing with either hand.Typing is another activity that exercised my left-hand coordination considerably.My right hand is still better, but not by nearly as wide a margin.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462929</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245865980000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>precisely my first thought when i read this post -- the auditory system works in "fields" much like the visual system - it's contralateral and ipsilateral.</p><p>who knows why the right ear thing gave them those results... seems rather shallow.  would the same be true if we asked participants to close their left eye and look at a beer?  how many of those beers would get consumed?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</p><p>incidentally, the cigarette thing throws a whole other problem into the equation -- addiction and alcohol.  if you ask someone at 7pm for a smoke, are they more or less likely to give one to you than at 1am when they've had 4+ drinks?</p><p>guess i'll have to read the study!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</p><p>-m</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>precisely my first thought when i read this post -- the auditory system works in " fields " much like the visual system - it 's contralateral and ipsilateral.who knows why the right ear thing gave them those results... seems rather shallow .
would the same be true if we asked participants to close their left eye and look at a beer ?
how many of those beers would get consumed ?
: ) incidentally , the cigarette thing throws a whole other problem into the equation -- addiction and alcohol .
if you ask someone at 7pm for a smoke , are they more or less likely to give one to you than at 1am when they 've had 4 + drinks ? guess i 'll have to read the study !
: ) -m</tokentext>
<sentencetext>precisely my first thought when i read this post -- the auditory system works in "fields" much like the visual system - it's contralateral and ipsilateral.who knows why the right ear thing gave them those results... seems rather shallow.
would the same be true if we asked participants to close their left eye and look at a beer?
how many of those beers would get consumed?
:)incidentally, the cigarette thing throws a whole other problem into the equation -- addiction and alcohol.
if you ask someone at 7pm for a smoke, are they more or less likely to give one to you than at 1am when they've had 4+ drinks?guess i'll have to read the study!
:)-m</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466795</id>
	<title>Not likely.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245946920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Ok, this is BS. Hearing, unlike vision or motor function, is not neatly lateralized. It is a subcortical mess, and input from both ears go to both hemispheres with no discernible preference for what side of the head the sound came from.<br>As for their experimental design, the researchers knew what results they were expecting when they performed the experiment, which could easily bias their results. A study like this one would need to be a double-blind.<br>And of course, correlation is not--no, I won't  say it. But I'm thinking it.</p><p>- Stephen L.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Ok , this is BS .
Hearing , unlike vision or motor function , is not neatly lateralized .
It is a subcortical mess , and input from both ears go to both hemispheres with no discernible preference for what side of the head the sound came from.As for their experimental design , the researchers knew what results they were expecting when they performed the experiment , which could easily bias their results .
A study like this one would need to be a double-blind.And of course , correlation is not--no , I wo n't say it .
But I 'm thinking it.- Stephen L .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Ok, this is BS.
Hearing, unlike vision or motor function, is not neatly lateralized.
It is a subcortical mess, and input from both ears go to both hemispheres with no discernible preference for what side of the head the sound came from.As for their experimental design, the researchers knew what results they were expecting when they performed the experiment, which could easily bias their results.
A study like this one would need to be a double-blind.And of course, correlation is not--no, I won't  say it.
But I'm thinking it.- Stephen L.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463229</id>
	<title>Re:Correlation != Causality</title>
	<author>Beryllium Sphere(tm)</author>
	<datestamp>1245869580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><a href="http://xkcd.com/552/" title="xkcd.com">http://xkcd.com/552/</a> [xkcd.com]</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>http : //xkcd.com/552/ [ xkcd.com ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>http://xkcd.com/552/ [xkcd.com]</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464833</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>ceoyoyo</author>
	<datestamp>1245935100000</datestamp>
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	<htmltext><p>Most evidence indicates the auditory system works in a similar way to the visual system - sound from both ears is integrated, then processed spatially, with the right field mostly mapped onto the left hemisphere.  The audio information from the right ear isn't necessarily processed preferentially by the left hemisphere, but sounds that originate on the right side probably are.  So it's not unreasonable that talking into someone's right ear or holding a phone to your right ear would have the effect described.  The article may have simplified this to "right ear, left hemisphere."</p><p>Unfortunately, your simplification is not only as bad as that in the article, it's implication is also incorrect while that of the article is not.</p><p>There's also a reasonable body of other evidence that there are laterality effects on audio processing.  For example, primates (which, like us, tend to have have vocalization processing overrepresented in the left hemisphere) preferentially turn to their right (to expose their right ear) when vocalizations are played behind them.</p><p>This study does seem to be quite preliminary but it's findings also don't seem to be much of a surprise in the context of what's already known.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Most evidence indicates the auditory system works in a similar way to the visual system - sound from both ears is integrated , then processed spatially , with the right field mostly mapped onto the left hemisphere .
The audio information from the right ear is n't necessarily processed preferentially by the left hemisphere , but sounds that originate on the right side probably are .
So it 's not unreasonable that talking into someone 's right ear or holding a phone to your right ear would have the effect described .
The article may have simplified this to " right ear , left hemisphere .
" Unfortunately , your simplification is not only as bad as that in the article , it 's implication is also incorrect while that of the article is not.There 's also a reasonable body of other evidence that there are laterality effects on audio processing .
For example , primates ( which , like us , tend to have have vocalization processing overrepresented in the left hemisphere ) preferentially turn to their right ( to expose their right ear ) when vocalizations are played behind them.This study does seem to be quite preliminary but it 's findings also do n't seem to be much of a surprise in the context of what 's already known .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Most evidence indicates the auditory system works in a similar way to the visual system - sound from both ears is integrated, then processed spatially, with the right field mostly mapped onto the left hemisphere.
The audio information from the right ear isn't necessarily processed preferentially by the left hemisphere, but sounds that originate on the right side probably are.
So it's not unreasonable that talking into someone's right ear or holding a phone to your right ear would have the effect described.
The article may have simplified this to "right ear, left hemisphere.
"Unfortunately, your simplification is not only as bad as that in the article, it's implication is also incorrect while that of the article is not.There's also a reasonable body of other evidence that there are laterality effects on audio processing.
For example, primates (which, like us, tend to have have vocalization processing overrepresented in the left hemisphere) preferentially turn to their right (to expose their right ear) when vocalizations are played behind them.This study does seem to be quite preliminary but it's findings also don't seem to be much of a surprise in the context of what's already known.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463997</id>
	<title>The right ear</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245922260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>So to get something done by somebody, we need to speak to their right ear.<br>
Great! Now all we need is a way to tell which ear is right and which ear is wrong.</htmltext>
<tokenext>So to get something done by somebody , we need to speak to their right ear .
Great ! Now all we need is a way to tell which ear is right and which ear is wrong .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So to get something done by somebody, we need to speak to their right ear.
Great! Now all we need is a way to tell which ear is right and which ear is wrong.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463123</id>
	<title>Right ear ?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245868380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Right ear ? Which ear is that ? I use my left had to hold my phone and put it to my left ear. That is what I see most ppl doing.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Right ear ?
Which ear is that ?
I use my left had to hold my phone and put it to my left ear .
That is what I see most ppl doing .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Right ear ?
Which ear is that ?
I use my left had to hold my phone and put it to my left ear.
That is what I see most ppl doing.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466989</id>
	<title>Time to switch my headset around</title>
	<author>Gilmoure</author>
	<datestamp>1245947940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Let's see how nice I am to my customers now.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Let 's see how nice I am to my customers now .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Let's see how nice I am to my customers now.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463239</id>
	<title>want a favor from a linux bitch?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245869640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>fuck them up the ass. they love being fucked in the ass. bunch of faggot linux users.</htmltext>
<tokenext>fuck them up the ass .
they love being fucked in the ass .
bunch of faggot linux users .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>fuck them up the ass.
they love being fucked in the ass.
bunch of faggot linux users.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464727</id>
	<title>Deafness..</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245933420000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I can't hear out of my left ear, so this finding does not surprise me at all!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I ca n't hear out of my left ear , so this finding does not surprise me at all !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I can't hear out of my left ear, so this finding does not surprise me at all!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463737</id>
	<title>then i must be a fucking genius</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245962160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>because i can use a cellphone with both hands.</p><p>who knew?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>because i can use a cellphone with both hands.who knew ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>because i can use a cellphone with both hands.who knew?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463793</id>
	<title>Re:Double Blind?</title>
	<author>BlackPignouf</author>
	<datestamp>1245962820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Exactly!</p><p>To the left ear  : "Yo, gimme some cigarette, fat bitch! Vaffanculo!"<br>To the right ear : "Sorry to interrupt, would you please consider giving me one cigarette? Grazie mille!"</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Exactly ! To the left ear : " Yo , gim me some cigarette , fat bitch !
Vaffanculo ! " To the right ear : " Sorry to interrupt , would you please consider giving me one cigarette ?
Grazie mille !
"</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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!
"</sentencetext>
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</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28473687</id>
	<title>Re:Double Blind?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245929880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>First of all, why use an acronym if you're going to write out what it is anyway? Just say "Please enlighten me, I am a scientist." It's quicker.

Secondly, that's not <a href="http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/IAAS" title="thefreedictionary.com" rel="nofollow">what IAAS stands for</a> [thefreedictionary.com] anyway...</htmltext>
<tokenext>First of all , why use an acronym if you 're going to write out what it is anyway ?
Just say " Please enlighten me , I am a scientist .
" It 's quicker .
Secondly , that 's not what IAAS stands for [ thefreedictionary.com ] anyway.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>First of all, why use an acronym if you're going to write out what it is anyway?
Just say "Please enlighten me, I am a scientist.
" It's quicker.
Secondly, that's not what IAAS stands for [thefreedictionary.com] anyway...</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467021</id>
	<title>Re:dextrocardia</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245948120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>mos tpeoples hearts are on the left side<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>mos tpeoples hearts are on the left side : )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>mos tpeoples hearts are on the left side :)</sentencetext>
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</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462805</id>
	<title>Corpus Callosum</title>
	<author>Korey Kaczor</author>
	<datestamp>1245864600000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>While this does sound interesting, wouldn't the corpus callosum allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?</htmltext>
<tokenext>While this does sound interesting , would n't the corpus callosum allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request , and then make a logical decision ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>While this does sound interesting, wouldn't the corpus callosum allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28468607</id>
	<title>Old news.</title>
	<author>2obvious4u</author>
	<datestamp>1245954120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>We've known about this since biblical times...</p><p>Acts 7:55,56: "But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; 56 and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."</p><p>All kinds of historical texts have put the person with the most influence on their right hand side, it was kind of intuitive knowledge that they've just pinned down...</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>We 've known about this since biblical times...Acts 7 : 55,56 : " But being full of the Holy Spirit , he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God , and Jesus standing at the right hand of God ; 56 and he said , " Behold , I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God .
" All kinds of historical texts have put the person with the most influence on their right hand side , it was kind of intuitive knowledge that they 've just pinned down.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>We've known about this since biblical times...Acts 7:55,56: "But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; 56 and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
"All kinds of historical texts have put the person with the most influence on their right hand side, it was kind of intuitive knowledge that they've just pinned down...</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28468823</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245954960000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Most people aren't 100\% one-hand-dominant.</p><p>For example, in my case, I best write legibly and easily only with my left hand, can draw well with either hand, most accurately throw a ball with my right, throw a stronger punch with my left, switch-hit, etc. I'm essentially ambidextrous (as are many other people who think they're only left or right handed). Oh, and I hold my phone to my left ear - I tend to space out on what people are saying if I have it held to my right ear.</p><p>In one of our studies, we have participants answer 10 questions about which hand they use to do certain tasks - left, right or either. Approximately 5\% of our participants answer 8+ questions as being ONLY left or right handed, 5\% answer 8+ questions with left AND right handedness, and everyone else is split pretty evenly. If we only talk about writing, then 80\% say only right hand, 15\% or so lefties, and 5\% ambidextrous.</p><p>So, just because a majority of people are (when it comes to writing) right-handed, that doesn't necessarily extend to other domains.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Most people are n't 100 \ % one-hand-dominant.For example , in my case , I best write legibly and easily only with my left hand , can draw well with either hand , most accurately throw a ball with my right , throw a stronger punch with my left , switch-hit , etc .
I 'm essentially ambidextrous ( as are many other people who think they 're only left or right handed ) .
Oh , and I hold my phone to my left ear - I tend to space out on what people are saying if I have it held to my right ear.In one of our studies , we have participants answer 10 questions about which hand they use to do certain tasks - left , right or either .
Approximately 5 \ % of our participants answer 8 + questions as being ONLY left or right handed , 5 \ % answer 8 + questions with left AND right handedness , and everyone else is split pretty evenly .
If we only talk about writing , then 80 \ % say only right hand , 15 \ % or so lefties , and 5 \ % ambidextrous.So , just because a majority of people are ( when it comes to writing ) right-handed , that does n't necessarily extend to other domains .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Most people aren't 100\% one-hand-dominant.For example, in my case, I best write legibly and easily only with my left hand, can draw well with either hand, most accurately throw a ball with my right, throw a stronger punch with my left, switch-hit, etc.
I'm essentially ambidextrous (as are many other people who think they're only left or right handed).
Oh, and I hold my phone to my left ear - I tend to space out on what people are saying if I have it held to my right ear.In one of our studies, we have participants answer 10 questions about which hand they use to do certain tasks - left, right or either.
Approximately 5\% of our participants answer 8+ questions as being ONLY left or right handed, 5\% answer 8+ questions with left AND right handedness, and everyone else is split pretty evenly.
If we only talk about writing, then 80\% say only right hand, 15\% or so lefties, and 5\% ambidextrous.So, just because a majority of people are (when it comes to writing) right-handed, that doesn't necessarily extend to other domains.</sentencetext>
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</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463141</id>
	<title>The Voice of</title>
	<author>JustOK</author>
	<datestamp>1245868560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Hallucinations typically come from behind and to the right.</p><p>Which ear I use on my phone depends on which is closer to the person on the other end.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Hallucinations typically come from behind and to the right.Which ear I use on my phone depends on which is closer to the person on the other end .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Hallucinations typically come from behind and to the right.Which ear I use on my phone depends on which is closer to the person on the other end.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464033</id>
	<title>Talk to the hand</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245922860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>So, "talk to the left hand" indicates even more that I'm not going to pay attention?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>So , " talk to the left hand " indicates even more that I 'm not going to pay attention ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So, "talk to the left hand" indicates even more that I'm not going to pay attention?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462781</id>
	<title>Cerebral Cortex.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864360000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>While this does sound  interesting, wouldn't the cerebral cortex allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?</htmltext>
<tokenext>While this does sound interesting , would n't the cerebral cortex allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request , and then make a logical decision ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>While this does sound  interesting, wouldn't the cerebral cortex allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463005</id>
	<title>Re:I hold my phone to my right ear</title>
	<author>Scott Kevill</author>
	<datestamp>1245867000000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I hold my phone to my left ear with my left hand, despite being right-handed, and probably always have. This is no surprise as it leaves my right hand free to navigate the mouse or type on the keyboard. Not rocket science.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I hold my phone to my left ear with my left hand , despite being right-handed , and probably always have .
This is no surprise as it leaves my right hand free to navigate the mouse or type on the keyboard .
Not rocket science .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I hold my phone to my left ear with my left hand, despite being right-handed, and probably always have.
This is no surprise as it leaves my right hand free to navigate the mouse or type on the keyboard.
Not rocket science.</sentencetext>
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</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462829</id>
	<title>Actually makes some sense but the headline is bad</title>
	<author>Banzai042</author>
	<datestamp>1245864900000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>This does line up with a topic in a similar vein I heard about a few years ago, essentially saying that the right ear is better for processing vocal type audio and the left ear is better for processing music type audio, because each ear is primarily connected to either the logical or creative side of the brain respectively.  Really the headline should say "Want someone to understand what you're saying? Talk in their right ear"
<br> <br>
I don't know how accurate this theory really is, but it doesn't sound as implausible to me as some others seem to think</htmltext>
<tokenext>This does line up with a topic in a similar vein I heard about a few years ago , essentially saying that the right ear is better for processing vocal type audio and the left ear is better for processing music type audio , because each ear is primarily connected to either the logical or creative side of the brain respectively .
Really the headline should say " Want someone to understand what you 're saying ?
Talk in their right ear " I do n't know how accurate this theory really is , but it does n't sound as implausible to me as some others seem to think</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This does line up with a topic in a similar vein I heard about a few years ago, essentially saying that the right ear is better for processing vocal type audio and the left ear is better for processing music type audio, because each ear is primarily connected to either the logical or creative side of the brain respectively.
Really the headline should say "Want someone to understand what you're saying?
Talk in their right ear"
 
I don't know how accurate this theory really is, but it doesn't sound as implausible to me as some others seem to think</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463119</id>
	<title>Re:Unconvinced</title>
	<author>Virtual\_Raider</author>
	<datestamp>1245868380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>Correct the data for laterality (right hand preference in majority of the population), then maybe the results will be interesting. Even then, the explanation is bull. Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically. Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.</p></div><p>What if it doesn't have to do with which ear is connected to what side of the brain but it is instead a visual cue (which is brain-sided) being picked up upon? If I stando to your right to talk to you, I might be having a psychological impact rather than a mechanical one.</p><p>What irritates me about so many of these types of research is that they seem to assume as a given that only because they concentrate in one part of a system this narrow focus automagically translates into isolation of the subject. How can you account for any other influences? Even if the subject is blind-folded, if the examiner is close enough the subject could still perceive the body heat. What if they wear ear phones with the balance tilted to the right or left, how do you account for the psychological factor of hearing on your preferred side over a purely mechanical explanation?</p><p>I think the phenomenon is interesting and worth studying, but the conclusion seems pretty suspect IMHO.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Correct the data for laterality ( right hand preference in majority of the population ) , then maybe the results will be interesting .
Even then , the explanation is bull .
Unlike sight , the auditory system does n't work cross-hemispherically .
Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.What if it does n't have to do with which ear is connected to what side of the brain but it is instead a visual cue ( which is brain-sided ) being picked up upon ?
If I stando to your right to talk to you , I might be having a psychological impact rather than a mechanical one.What irritates me about so many of these types of research is that they seem to assume as a given that only because they concentrate in one part of a system this narrow focus automagically translates into isolation of the subject .
How can you account for any other influences ?
Even if the subject is blind-folded , if the examiner is close enough the subject could still perceive the body heat .
What if they wear ear phones with the balance tilted to the right or left , how do you account for the psychological factor of hearing on your preferred side over a purely mechanical explanation ? I think the phenomenon is interesting and worth studying , but the conclusion seems pretty suspect IMHO .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Correct the data for laterality (right hand preference in majority of the population), then maybe the results will be interesting.
Even then, the explanation is bull.
Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically.
Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.What if it doesn't have to do with which ear is connected to what side of the brain but it is instead a visual cue (which is brain-sided) being picked up upon?
If I stando to your right to talk to you, I might be having a psychological impact rather than a mechanical one.What irritates me about so many of these types of research is that they seem to assume as a given that only because they concentrate in one part of a system this narrow focus automagically translates into isolation of the subject.
How can you account for any other influences?
Even if the subject is blind-folded, if the examiner is close enough the subject could still perceive the body heat.
What if they wear ear phones with the balance tilted to the right or left, how do you account for the psychological factor of hearing on your preferred side over a purely mechanical explanation?I think the phenomenon is interesting and worth studying, but the conclusion seems pretty suspect IMHO.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463495</id>
	<title>Now I know!</title>
	<author>Cyphax</author>
	<datestamp>1245873120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>So basically the surgeons, after taking out most of my inner ear due to a nasty inner ear infection, turned me into a jerk seeing as how I have hardly any hearing left in my right ear. Thanks for this article, now I can sue them, seeing as how it's their fault I have no friends.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>So basically the surgeons , after taking out most of my inner ear due to a nasty inner ear infection , turned me into a jerk seeing as how I have hardly any hearing left in my right ear .
Thanks for this article , now I can sue them , seeing as how it 's their fault I have no friends .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So basically the surgeons, after taking out most of my inner ear due to a nasty inner ear infection, turned me into a jerk seeing as how I have hardly any hearing left in my right ear.
Thanks for this article, now I can sue them, seeing as how it's their fault I have no friends.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462791</id>
	<title>Unconvinced</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245864480000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext>Correct the data for laterality (right hand preference in majority of the population), then maybe the results will be interesting. Even then, the explanation is bull. Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically. Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Correct the data for laterality ( right hand preference in majority of the population ) , then maybe the results will be interesting .
Even then , the explanation is bull .
Unlike sight , the auditory system does n't work cross-hemispherically .
Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Correct the data for laterality (right hand preference in majority of the population), then maybe the results will be interesting.
Even then, the explanation is bull.
Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically.
Sound from the right side is carried by the auditory nerve into the right portion of the temporal lobe.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463015</id>
	<title>Advisers to the right, losers to the left</title>
	<author>Black Sabbath</author>
	<datestamp>1245867060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext>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!</htmltext>
<tokenext>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 !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28468189</id>
	<title>Re:Double Blind?</title>
	<author>Hatta</author>
	<datestamp>1245952560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i>And what the hell is with that sample size? 176 people? You went to 3 Italian nightclubs and could only find 176 smokers to ask for cigarettes between them? At least pretend you're trying to gather a statistically significant number of responses.</i></p><p>Sample size has very little to do with statistical significance.  The p-value is what determines whether your result is statistically significant.  What sample size affects is how precise your result is; it determines your confidence interval.</p><p>A small sample size with the typical p-value of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.05 will give you a 95\% confidence that the real value is within a wide confidence interval.  A larger sample will narrow that confidence interval, but it doesn't change the confidence you have in your result.</p><p>Statistics can be counter-intuitive, and it's hard enough to interpret them without people repeating myths like "small sample sizes are not statistically significant".   Small sample sizes are good, they make research affordable, and there are <a href="http://www.osra.org/itlpj/bartlettkotrlikhiggins.pdf" title="osra.org">rigorous methods</a> [osra.org] to determine whether the sample size is sufficient to support your results.  If you haven't done the analysis, don't assume the authors haven't.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>And what the hell is with that sample size ?
176 people ?
You went to 3 Italian nightclubs and could only find 176 smokers to ask for cigarettes between them ?
At least pretend you 're trying to gather a statistically significant number of responses.Sample size has very little to do with statistical significance .
The p-value is what determines whether your result is statistically significant .
What sample size affects is how precise your result is ; it determines your confidence interval.A small sample size with the typical p-value of .05 will give you a 95 \ % confidence that the real value is within a wide confidence interval .
A larger sample will narrow that confidence interval , but it does n't change the confidence you have in your result.Statistics can be counter-intuitive , and it 's hard enough to interpret them without people repeating myths like " small sample sizes are not statistically significant " .
Small sample sizes are good , they make research affordable , and there are rigorous methods [ osra.org ] to determine whether the sample size is sufficient to support your results .
If you have n't done the analysis , do n't assume the authors have n't .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>And what the hell is with that sample size?
176 people?
You went to 3 Italian nightclubs and could only find 176 smokers to ask for cigarettes between them?
At least pretend you're trying to gather a statistically significant number of responses.Sample size has very little to do with statistical significance.
The p-value is what determines whether your result is statistically significant.
What sample size affects is how precise your result is; it determines your confidence interval.A small sample size with the typical p-value of .05 will give you a 95\% confidence that the real value is within a wide confidence interval.
A larger sample will narrow that confidence interval, but it doesn't change the confidence you have in your result.Statistics can be counter-intuitive, and it's hard enough to interpret them without people repeating myths like "small sample sizes are not statistically significant".
Small sample sizes are good, they make research affordable, and there are rigorous methods [osra.org] to determine whether the sample size is sufficient to support your results.
If you haven't done the analysis, don't assume the authors haven't.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462933</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463909</id>
	<title>Nightclubs and free cigs</title>
	<author>codeButcher</author>
	<datestamp>1245921240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>... and they probably slept through most of the day.
<p>Anyway, <i>great research</i>, as this would explain why I'm such an A.H. on the phone - I hold it to my left ear.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>... and they probably slept through most of the day .
Anyway , great research , as this would explain why I 'm such an A.H. on the phone - I hold it to my left ear .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... and they probably slept through most of the day.
Anyway, great research, as this would explain why I'm such an A.H. on the phone - I hold it to my left ear.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463185</id>
	<title>dextrocardia</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245869100000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext>My girlfriend is left handed, BUT she has dextrocardia, a condition in which her heart is on the left side of her chest. Her liver is also mirrored. Persons with this condition often show mirroring in all of their organs, including the brain. She talks with the phone against her left ear...which I suppose would make sense according to this study.</htmltext>
<tokenext>My girlfriend is left handed , BUT she has dextrocardia , a condition in which her heart is on the left side of her chest .
Her liver is also mirrored .
Persons with this condition often show mirroring in all of their organs , including the brain .
She talks with the phone against her left ear...which I suppose would make sense according to this study .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>My girlfriend is left handed, BUT she has dextrocardia, a condition in which her heart is on the left side of her chest.
Her liver is also mirrored.
Persons with this condition often show mirroring in all of their organs, including the brain.
She talks with the phone against her left ear...which I suppose would make sense according to this study.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464077</id>
	<title>You know</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245923160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>someone talking into your ear will be in your peripheral vision.  Who's to say you aren't simply more relaxed/amenable with the unknown person approaching you on your dominant side, where you are more capable of defending yourself?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>someone talking into your ear will be in your peripheral vision .
Who 's to say you are n't simply more relaxed/amenable with the unknown person approaching you on your dominant side , where you are more capable of defending yourself ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>someone talking into your ear will be in your peripheral vision.
Who's to say you aren't simply more relaxed/amenable with the unknown person approaching you on your dominant side, where you are more capable of defending yourself?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465131</id>
	<title>Dependent on what we interpret as important?</title>
	<author>g34rs</author>
	<datestamp>1245937680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Makes you wonder if that also has anything to do with the content of the conversation. Seems like when I call someone I know, or receive a call from someone I know I use my left ear. Every time I make calls at my job (Hitachi Engineering) I always use my right ear... maybe because I know I'm relaying/receiving important information?

Now that would be an interesting side study...</htmltext>
<tokenext>Makes you wonder if that also has anything to do with the content of the conversation .
Seems like when I call someone I know , or receive a call from someone I know I use my left ear .
Every time I make calls at my job ( Hitachi Engineering ) I always use my right ear... maybe because I know I 'm relaying/receiving important information ?
Now that would be an interesting side study.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Makes you wonder if that also has anything to do with the content of the conversation.
Seems like when I call someone I know, or receive a call from someone I know I use my left ear.
Every time I make calls at my job (Hitachi Engineering) I always use my right ear... maybe because I know I'm relaying/receiving important information?
Now that would be an interesting side study...</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28477103</id>
	<title>I've noticed that for a while now</title>
	<author>Lennort</author>
	<datestamp>1245948360000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Nobody else has actually experienced this? I've noticed this for a few years now, and I talked with a few others who agreed. I can't talk on the phone very well with my left ear, even though that ear is more sensitive. I suspected other reasons, but this makes perfect sense to me.

I was expecting tons of people to have similar replies to mine, but I guess I'm in the minority here.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Nobody else has actually experienced this ?
I 've noticed this for a few years now , and I talked with a few others who agreed .
I ca n't talk on the phone very well with my left ear , even though that ear is more sensitive .
I suspected other reasons , but this makes perfect sense to me .
I was expecting tons of people to have similar replies to mine , but I guess I 'm in the minority here .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Nobody else has actually experienced this?
I've noticed this for a few years now, and I talked with a few others who agreed.
I can't talk on the phone very well with my left ear, even though that ear is more sensitive.
I suspected other reasons, but this makes perfect sense to me.
I was expecting tons of people to have similar replies to mine, but I guess I'm in the minority here.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463377</id>
	<title>Re:Anonymous Coward</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245871500000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Yes but he is giving YOU advice into your right ear so you like the right guy better. If he doesnt do what is said into his left ear you fire him and promote lefty.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Yes but he is giving YOU advice into your right ear so you like the right guy better .
If he doesnt do what is said into his left ear you fire him and promote lefty .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Yes but he is giving YOU advice into your right ear so you like the right guy better.
If he doesnt do what is said into his left ear you fire him and promote lefty.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463033</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465141</id>
	<title>Re:dextrocardia</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245937740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The heart is on the right side of the chest in dextrocardia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrocardia).  The heart is usually on the left side of the chest.  But interesting point.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The heart is on the right side of the chest in dextrocardia ( http : //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrocardia ) .
The heart is usually on the left side of the chest .
But interesting point .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The heart is on the right side of the chest in dextrocardia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrocardia).
The heart is usually on the left side of the chest.
But interesting point.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463185</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28469785</id>
	<title>Re:Yeah I can make up bullshit too</title>
	<author>honkycat</author>
	<datestamp>1245958560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The authors thought of that (I read the actual paper discussed by the article which goes into detail in their methods).  I'm going to make a more comprehensive post about the methods and conclusions in a moment, but because your hypothesis is an important one, I'm posting this.  In all of the interactions they included in their analysis, the initial approach was face-on.  This should rule out varying comfort based on direction of approach.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The authors thought of that ( I read the actual paper discussed by the article which goes into detail in their methods ) .
I 'm going to make a more comprehensive post about the methods and conclusions in a moment , but because your hypothesis is an important one , I 'm posting this .
In all of the interactions they included in their analysis , the initial approach was face-on .
This should rule out varying comfort based on direction of approach .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The authors thought of that (I read the actual paper discussed by the article which goes into detail in their methods).
I'm going to make a more comprehensive post about the methods and conclusions in a moment, but because your hypothesis is an important one, I'm posting this.
In all of the interactions they included in their analysis, the initial approach was face-on.
This should rule out varying comfort based on direction of approach.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464547</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28467943</id>
	<title>Re:It explains cars too!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245951660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>...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!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>....</p></div><p>Also it explains why English men drive on the wrong side of the road.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>...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 !
....Also it explains why English men drive on the wrong side of the road .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>...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!
....Also it explains why English men drive on the wrong side of the road.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464697</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28462867</id>
	<title>great</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245865260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>good</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>good</tokentext>
<sentencetext>good</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465255</id>
	<title>In other news...</title>
	<author>the person standing</author>
	<datestamp>1245938580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>... talking to right ears increases the risc of lung cancer</htmltext>
<tokenext>... talking to right ears increases the risc of lung cancer</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... talking to right ears increases the risc of lung cancer</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464697</id>
	<title>It explains cars too!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245932940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>...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!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...or it could just be some bullshit theory where the data was cherry picked to make some sort of pop science conclusion.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>...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 .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>...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.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463211</id>
	<title>Seriously?</title>
	<author>glwtta</author>
	<datestamp>1245869460000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><i>'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.'</i>
<br> <br>
Right, that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that most people are right handed, could it?</htmltext>
<tokenext>'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone , most will naturally hold it to their right ear .
' Right , that could n't possibly have anything to do with the fact that most people are right handed , could it ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.
'
 
Right, that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that most people are right handed, could it?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463225</id>
	<title>this is science?</title>
	<author>onionlee</author>
	<datestamp>1245869580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.'

thats because most of the world is right handed.</htmltext>
<tokenext>'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone , most will naturally hold it to their right ear .
' thats because most of the world is right handed .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.
'

thats because most of the world is right handed.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463635</id>
	<title>whether or not this is true</title>
	<author>circletimessquare</author>
	<datestamp>1245961140000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>it puts this story in hilarious contrast:</p><p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life\_and\_style/health/article3817270.ece" title="timesonline.co.uk">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life\_and\_style/health/article3817270.ece</a> [timesonline.co.uk] </p><blockquote><div><p>If you're thinking of asking your beloved to marry you, make sure that you utter your declaration of love into his or her left ear; it may increase your chances of hearing a heart-lifting "yes". New research suggests that declarations of love, jokes, or words of anger are best remembered when they are heard through the left ear, while instructions, directions and non-emotional messages have more impact on the right side.</p><p>It is all to do with how our brains process information. Although the left and right hemispheres, or sides, of the brain are similar structures, they have specialised functions. The left side, it is suggested, is more logic-based and dominant, while the right is the more imaginative side, more visual, intuitive, emotional and spatially aware. Because the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, the left ear has been shown in some research to be the route to the emotional side of the brain, and the right ear to the non-emotional, logical side.</p></div></blockquote><p>i don't know how true all of this is, but there's all sorts of anecdotes like this</p><p>for example: women usually have their left breast a little larger than their right breast. regardless of which is larger, and regardless of handedness, women, and all simians in fact, and even breastless fathers, tend to hold their babies with their right arms to their left breast. this places the babies head on the left side of the body, putting the baby closer to the left side sensory inputs, which are governed by the right side of the brain, the more emotional side, thus establishing more of an emotional bond</p><p>so i don't know about all this ear stuff, but there seems to be something, at best subtle, that is real about side preference and emotions and logic</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>it puts this story in hilarious contrast : http : //www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life \ _and \ _style/health/article3817270.ece [ timesonline.co.uk ] If you 're thinking of asking your beloved to marry you , make sure that you utter your declaration of love into his or her left ear ; it may increase your chances of hearing a heart-lifting " yes " .
New research suggests that declarations of love , jokes , or words of anger are best remembered when they are heard through the left ear , while instructions , directions and non-emotional messages have more impact on the right side.It is all to do with how our brains process information .
Although the left and right hemispheres , or sides , of the brain are similar structures , they have specialised functions .
The left side , it is suggested , is more logic-based and dominant , while the right is the more imaginative side , more visual , intuitive , emotional and spatially aware .
Because the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body , the left ear has been shown in some research to be the route to the emotional side of the brain , and the right ear to the non-emotional , logical side.i do n't know how true all of this is , but there 's all sorts of anecdotes like thisfor example : women usually have their left breast a little larger than their right breast .
regardless of which is larger , and regardless of handedness , women , and all simians in fact , and even breastless fathers , tend to hold their babies with their right arms to their left breast .
this places the babies head on the left side of the body , putting the baby closer to the left side sensory inputs , which are governed by the right side of the brain , the more emotional side , thus establishing more of an emotional bondso i do n't know about all this ear stuff , but there seems to be something , at best subtle , that is real about side preference and emotions and logic</tokentext>
<sentencetext>it puts this story in hilarious contrast:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life\_and\_style/health/article3817270.ece [timesonline.co.uk] If you're thinking of asking your beloved to marry you, make sure that you utter your declaration of love into his or her left ear; it may increase your chances of hearing a heart-lifting "yes".
New research suggests that declarations of love, jokes, or words of anger are best remembered when they are heard through the left ear, while instructions, directions and non-emotional messages have more impact on the right side.It is all to do with how our brains process information.
Although the left and right hemispheres, or sides, of the brain are similar structures, they have specialised functions.
The left side, it is suggested, is more logic-based and dominant, while the right is the more imaginative side, more visual, intuitive, emotional and spatially aware.
Because the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, the left ear has been shown in some research to be the route to the emotional side of the brain, and the right ear to the non-emotional, logical side.i don't know how true all of this is, but there's all sorts of anecdotes like thisfor example: women usually have their left breast a little larger than their right breast.
regardless of which is larger, and regardless of handedness, women, and all simians in fact, and even breastless fathers, tend to hold their babies with their right arms to their left breast.
this places the babies head on the left side of the body, putting the baby closer to the left side sensory inputs, which are governed by the right side of the brain, the more emotional side, thus establishing more of an emotional bondso i don't know about all this ear stuff, but there seems to be something, at best subtle, that is real about side preference and emotions and logic
	</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466507</id>
	<title>Deaf</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245945480000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I'm deaf in my right ear, you insensitive clod!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm deaf in my right ear , you insensitive clod !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm deaf in my right ear, you insensitive clod!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463385</id>
	<title>It makes sense</title>
	<author>dropzonetoe</author>
	<datestamp>1245871560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>My wife has always slept with that ear away from me.... Now I know why.  Any tips on getting a spouse to swap sides of the bed<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</htmltext>
<tokenext>My wife has always slept with that ear away from me.... Now I know why .
Any tips on getting a spouse to swap sides of the bed : )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>My wife has always slept with that ear away from me.... Now I know why.
Any tips on getting a spouse to swap sides of the bed :)</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28466565</id>
	<title>is that Seven of Nine?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245945720000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven\_of\_Nine</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>http : //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven \ _of \ _Nine</tokentext>
<sentencetext>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven\_of\_Nine</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464469</id>
	<title>I switch ears, I think everyone does</title>
	<author>Godefricus</author>
	<datestamp>1245928680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I've noticed a long time ago that I change my phone to my other ear depending on whether I talk business or emotions.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I 've noticed a long time ago that I change my phone to my other ear depending on whether I talk business or emotions .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I've noticed a long time ago that I change my phone to my other ear depending on whether I talk business or emotions.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465001</id>
	<title>Re:I don't listen to anyone...</title>
	<author>Beyond\_GoodandEvil</author>
	<datestamp>1245936840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Actually, if you're a female, it doesn't matter which ear you talk into as long as you press your breasts into my arm when you make the request.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Actually , if you 're a female , it does n't matter which ear you talk into as long as you press your breasts into my arm when you make the request .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Actually, if you're a female, it doesn't matter which ear you talk into as long as you press your breasts into my arm when you make the request.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463065</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464129</id>
	<title>Yeah yeah....</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245923640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Confounded with the expectation of the asking person, if they didn't use unknowing people for asking.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Confounded with the expectation of the asking person , if they did n't use unknowing people for asking .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Confounded with the expectation of the asking person, if they didn't use unknowing people for asking.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463801</id>
	<title>oops...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245962880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>my brain only serves logic functions<br>coz<br>i hold my phone left-handed with left ear<br>AND<br>i m a computer guy<br>EVIL XD</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>my brain only serves logic functionscozi hold my phone left-handed with left earANDi m a computer guyEVIL XD</tokentext>
<sentencetext>my brain only serves logic functionscozi hold my phone left-handed with left earANDi m a computer guyEVIL XD</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28470465</id>
	<title>For all Manhattan, NYC Grubbers...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1245961140000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>A tip for all guests, visitors, homeless &amp; drunks in New York City...Positioning yourself near a building wall on the west side of any avenue will result in greater cigarette acquisition than standing against a building on the east side of an avenue.</p><p>Should you prefer standing near the curb, simply reverse this logic.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>A tip for all guests , visitors , homeless &amp; drunks in New York City...Positioning yourself near a building wall on the west side of any avenue will result in greater cigarette acquisition than standing against a building on the east side of an avenue.Should you prefer standing near the curb , simply reverse this logic .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>A tip for all guests, visitors, homeless &amp; drunks in New York City...Positioning yourself near a building wall on the west side of any avenue will result in greater cigarette acquisition than standing against a building on the east side of an avenue.Should you prefer standing near the curb, simply reverse this logic.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28464781</id>
	<title>That explains a few things</title>
	<author>neflyte</author>
	<datestamp>1245934440000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>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.<br>Maybe that's also why my ex left me. She could never get any favours!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I guess that 's why I keep annoying people at work .
I do n'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 !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>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!</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28465447</id>
	<title>Re:Advisers to the right, losers to the left</title>
	<author>Kadagan AU</author>
	<datestamp>1245939900000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>This is an interesting thought. In a (US) military formation, the higher ranking people are to the far right of the formation (if you're standing in it), so the person to their left is lower ranking. You speak into his right ear. He's already compelled by rank and respect for your position to follow your directions, but this might add just a little more to it. Probably not.. but who knows.</htmltext>
<tokenext>This is an interesting thought .
In a ( US ) military formation , the higher ranking people are to the far right of the formation ( if you 're standing in it ) , so the person to their left is lower ranking .
You speak into his right ear .
He 's already compelled by rank and respect for your position to follow your directions , but this might add just a little more to it .
Probably not.. but who knows .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This is an interesting thought.
In a (US) military formation, the higher ranking people are to the far right of the formation (if you're standing in it), so the person to their left is lower ranking.
You speak into his right ear.
He's already compelled by rank and respect for your position to follow your directions, but this might add just a little more to it.
Probably not.. but who knows.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463015</parent>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_06_24_2257221.28463769</id>
	<title>Logic and giving away cigarettes?</title>
	<author>IBBoard</author>
	<datestamp>1245962520000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I guess they were in a night club, which somewhat affects logic, but they say:</p><blockquote><div><p>the left hand side of the brain which is more logical and better at deciphering verbal information</p></div></blockquote><p>and then say:</p><blockquote><div><p>They obtained significantly more cigarettes when they made their request in a person's right ear compared with their left.</p></div></blockquote><p>What part of giving away one of your cigarettes to some cheap-ass bum who can't afford their own is logical? Unless, I guess, they had a hot woman asking guys, at which point they'll be hoping that a simple cigarette now leads to the need for more later...</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>I guess they were in a night club , which somewhat affects logic , but they say : the left hand side of the brain which is more logical and better at deciphering verbal informationand then say : They obtained significantly more cigarettes when they made their request in a person 's right ear compared with their left.What part of giving away one of your cigarettes to some cheap-ass bum who ca n't afford their own is logical ?
Unless , I guess , they had a hot woman asking guys , at which point they 'll be hoping that a simple cigarette now leads to the need for more later.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I guess they were in a night club, which somewhat affects logic, but they say:the left hand side of the brain which is more logical and better at deciphering verbal informationand then say:They obtained significantly more cigarettes when they made their request in a person's right ear compared with their left.What part of giving away one of your cigarettes to some cheap-ass bum who can't afford their own is logical?
Unless, I guess, they had a hot woman asking guys, at which point they'll be hoping that a simple cigarette now leads to the need for more later...
	</sentencetext>
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