Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear 288
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.'"
Re:Correlation != Causality (Score:3, Funny)
Seems like the classic example.
Classic in what way? I don't hear requests for cigarettes or change with either ear.
Re:Unconvinced (Score:2, Funny)
>Unlike sight, the auditory system doesn't work cross-hemispherically.
This article just got owned. No more comments needed.
from the bene-gesserit-tricks dept. (Score:3, Funny)
Advisers to the right, losers to the left (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Correlation != Causality (Score:5, Funny)
if you take to a soldier in the right ear as your going down the squad line
The following person not only remembers it, he's scarred for life.
I don't listen to anyone... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score:2, Funny)
Clearly, everybody who disagreed with you thought you were a 'whack job'. That would have certainly explained the need for your right hand.
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Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Advisers to the right, losers to the left (Score:3, Funny)
Does that mean that Christianity has nothing to worry about, because no-one is ever going to listen to that devil who sits on their left shoulder? ;)
Re:Double Blind? (Score:3, Funny)
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!"
Re:I don't listen to anyone... (Score:5, Funny)
"Talk to the hand"
Right or left hand?
Left-handed (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Unconvinced (Score:3, Funny)
In short, WTF?
Re:I don't listen to anyone... (Score:1, Funny)
I don't know.
AAAAaaaaarghhhhh...
Re:Not enough data (Score:1, Funny)
But use a "!=" so we know you're a programmer.
Re:I'm surprised (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed. For example, a rifle tends to be longer than a pistol. :-)
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Here's for hearing you, kid... (Score:3, Funny)
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It explains cars too! (Score:3, Funny)
...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.
That explains a few things (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score:4, Funny)
A good wife doesn't talk to your right ear when she wants a favor, but your middle leg.
Re:I hold my phone to my left ear (Score:1, Funny)
Tried it today! When asking people for a cigarette while speaking into their deaf ear I found that I received no cigarettes at all! I'll analyze the data further and post my conclusions....
Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score:3, Funny)
gah, I'm going senile. write. right.
I'm never use too have this sort of problems... :-S