Expert: Dana Krempels, Ph.D. - 9/20/2010

Question
I've come across an observation that may hold some kind of scientific merit. The idea is testable, measurable, observable and falsifiable as well. The idea concerns my dominant hand theory.

I've discovered that one can accurately predict the dominant hand a person will have at birth just by looking the back of their head. I would really like to know how this idea relates to biology and or genetics since a persons dominate hand could be implemented after conception.

The idea involves the spiral pattern that is seen on the back of the head in infants and adults. This spiral pattern is the same spiral fractal that we see in the phi ratio, fibonnaci sequence and the mandelbrot set.

It is also related to spin and the centrifugal forces that act upon matter, space, time and energy. Now the spiral that rest on the back of each human head mimics the same pattern seen in spiral galaxies, hurricanes, torsion fields, fractal geometry, whirlpools etc....

Being on a planet that is spinning is also a force that affects the growth of life on this planet as well. As for the spiral on the back of the head and how it relates to a dominate hand theory goes as follows....

The spiral can be located on different parts of the back of the head on either the right hemisphere or the left hemisphere and occasionally in the middle. The hair spirals themselves contain an eye at the center of it which falls in the area that predicts that persons dominate hand.

By imagining a center line down the back of the head one would notice that the eye of the spiral falls on either of the hemispheres of that persons head which predicts their dominate hand.

Some say that hand dominance could be decided during fetal development and that a gene may be involved in determining this cause. In order to see if this hypothesis is correct I have tested the idea by observing the subjects head first and then I would reveal their dominant hand to them even before knowing what their dominant hand was.

I have had a very high success rate with this test with very accurate test results. I was clearly able to determine who was right handed, who was left handed, who was ambidextrous and who was mixed handed. Those who were primarily right handed had the eye of the spiral far on the right hemisphere and vice versa for left handed people.

People who were mix handed had the eye of the spiral closer to the center of each hemisphere on either side or right in the middle of their head. Those who were ambidextrous had two spirals on the back of their head with each on either side (have several photo diagrams that show these results).   

This theory may also have something to do with those who are the left brain user versus the right brain users. There may also be another connection to how high or how low the spiral is on the head which may also be related to something else biological that we may be overlooking.

As an example we could say the higher the spiral the higher the intelligence or status in a society and vice versa but this is just an example but maybe one that could hold scientific merit if it is related to evolution.

My question is could this be a plausible theory based on another scientist conducting the experiments in a controlled way in order to test its validity? And if so who would you recommend it to?

I have images of the test subjects on these two pages of my research.

http://www.ascensionq2.20fr.com/custom_1.html

http://www.ascensionq3.20fr.com/photo4_1.html

http://www.ascensionq3.20fr.com/custom3_2.html

The main page for my work is on www.ascensionq.20fr.com

Thank you for your time

Answer
Dear Larry,

This is very interesting!  I see no reason why you could not publish this yourself, though it would help if you had a co-author at a university so that you could have a greater possibility of publishing this work.  I'm sure any collaborators would want to collect data in a specific manner, to avoid any bias or human error.

I am not an expert in the field of handedness, but it is a *very* active area of research in both biology and psychology.  To get just a small sampling of some of the research in this area, I went to Google Scholar and found this:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=handedness&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=40001&as...

I would suggest you peruse these articles and find some that are most closely related to the phenomenon you have noticed, and then contact the authors of those papers to see if they would be interested in a collaboration with you.   Especially if you already have collected and statistically analyzed the data, they may be very willing to jump on board.

I wish you success, and hope you might let me know if you do have this work published at some time.

Good luck!

Dana