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If you're right handed you'll use the right hand/arm more than the left, which will increase the risk of the watch getting scratched.

Also, right hande people are more prone to be carrying stuff in the right hand. Looking at the watch is easier if it's on the left hand that isn't carrying anything.

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Which hand do most people write with there left hand or there right hand?

Most people write with there right hand.


Why do people wear their watch on the left wrist?

A wristwatch is usually worn on the wrist that will get the least exposure to water and other spills, knocks and scratches and other damage. For a right handed person that would be the left wrist. Since most people are right handed, most watches are worn on the left wrist. Left handed people tend to wear theirs on their right wrist.


Was Einstein left handed?

I would also like to know the complete answer. There seems to be people that are quite sure of themselves giving both answers. I have seen a few images of him with a chalk in his right hand. As a left hander though I also write on the board with my right hand as many left handers do (you have to for cursive or the chalk bounces). I think it would be fair to assume he may have been right handed (at least at writing), even if he wasn't originally he would have most probably been forced to use his right hand in school anyway.Hence you can't really be certain based on his writing hand alone so I had a look for him doing something very natural that he couldn't have been forced to switch hands with (in this case holding his pipe) and interestingly (to my surprise also), in all the images he seems to be using his left hand. Perhaps he was left handed but because he wrote with his right hand we get a lot of controversy.I think whatever the case Einstein was a notoriously visual thinker, which is attributed to the right side of the brain (that left handers use and which is undoubtedly linked to the much higher percentage of left handed artists). I remember they found he had a much higher neuron density connecting the 2 halves (I'm a bit rusty though so if someone could confirm that...). I guess really, he probably got his genius from using both halves of his brain, and not specifically being left or right handed. That's what I would say anywayAnother opinion:He was left-handed. The photos showing him writing with his right hand were laterally reversed so that it would look like he belonged to the "right", the "majority".


Why an unknown mass is placed in the left pan of physical balance?

It is just for human convenience. If the person who uses the physical balance is left handed then placing the unknown mass in the right pan will be the most convenient for him. So easyness to place the weights on the pan is considered. Hence the usual procedure.


When falling on an outstretched hand what structure is most likely to be injured?

Your arm

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A wristwatch is usually worn on the wrist that will get the least exposure to water and other spills, knocks and scratches and other damage. For a right handed person that would be the left wrist. Since most people are right handed, most watches are worn on the left wrist. Left handed people tend to wear theirs on their right wrist.


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