{"id":13827,"date":"2019-02-19T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/?p=13827"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:38:49","slug":"cross-domination-survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/cross-domination-survey-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Domination survey results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 35px; color: #3366ff;\"><strong>This topic seemed to spark a great deal of interest amongst our audience. It appears that you don\u2019t have to look far to find someone who is Mixed-handed or has Cross Domination.<\/strong><\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 35px; color: #3366ff;\"><strong>We wanted to know which of your eyes was dominant. I wonder if the results will surprise you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 35px; color: #3366ff;\"><strong>We wanted to know whether you consider yourself; a very good, good, average or poor reader. <\/strong><\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 35px; color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Well, the results are in\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Would you believe that the results indicated that there was a 50:50 split in the answers?<\/span><\/p>  \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">50% of you were right eye dominant and 50% were left eye dominant, but did this have an effect on your reading ability? The answer to this question appears to be NO.<\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Those people who indicated that they were right eye dominant did show a bigger range of results when asked about their reading ability though.<\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">However, the same percentage (67%) of you who are right eye dominant considered yourself to be a very good reader compared to those who are left eye dominant. Only 11% of right eye dominant people, felt they were poor readers.<\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">See the pie charts below.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left.png 749w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left-150x91.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right.png 749w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right-150x90.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">It is interesting to note that although around 80% or more of the population is right-handed, this overwhelming majority does not appear to be the case when we asked you about your dominant eye.<\/span><\/p>  \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">You should know that your dominant eye does not necessarily correlate with the hand that you write with, this would be considered simply coincidental.<\/span><\/p>  \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">The brain is a very interesting organ and as we know, it can change with practice.<\/span><\/p> \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">When our brain is healthy and performing at its peak, the results can be amazing.<\/span><\/p>  \n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Learning more about how the brain works can help us to understand our strengths and weaknesses and how we can use them to our advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This topic seemed to spark a great deal of interest amongst our audience. It appears that you don\u2019t have to look far to find someone who is Mixed-handed or has Cross Domination. We wanted to know which of your eyes was dominant. I wonder if the results will surprise you?... <br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/cross-domination-survey-results\/\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":15924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13827"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13908,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions\/13908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}