righty or lefty, innie or outie?

i have a project i have to do for a genetics course and the subject is...

are people with innie belly buttons more likely to be predominantly right handed? and are left handed persons more likely to have an outie?

it's basically a pile of bull about how a person's genetic traits may not be connected in any way to a person's physical traits.
however this proves difficult as a lot of people who would be left handed had it beaten out of them in grade school. so if you respond... please tell your predominant hand and belly button type. predominant being which one you use most often for writing.

thank you. :)

Ha, nice to know schools are doing good worthy studies. (years ago, I did one about if the majority of cows in a field were lying down, then it would rain)

I am right handed so I would be correct in having an innie.

I'm an innie and righthanded.

I was originally an outie and was changed to an innie, but I was and still am a leftie.

I'm an innie, and right handed.
My DH, DS, and DD are innies and left handed.

Funny!
Me.... innie/rightie

In this family:

6 of us are right handed with innies

1 is left handed with an innie (We still haven't figured out how he turned out left handed)

My husband and I are both innies and right-handed. Although I can use my left hand for everything my right hand can do sometimes better except writing. That may be because I thought that would be "cool" when I was younger and practiced with my left hand. Now it is just natural to switch hands back and forth.

I am left-outie!..lol
..har, har get it, left outie...lol off to bed!

p.s good luck with project!

This message was edited Sep 11, 2008 8:46 PM

mm let's see 7 of us are right handed and one is left and everyone is an innie

...uh, nope 6 are rightie and innies, and 1 leftie and outie.

This is too funny. I'm an innie and was originally a lefty. Many rappings on the knuckles have now made me a confused righty. I still reach for things with my left and pick up the pen with my left, then switch it to the right.

Right & Innie!

LOL! When I broke my right wrist in 5th grade I had to use my left hand for everything, now I do half things with my left and the more difficult things, like writing, with my right. I hang clothes up and iron with my left. Amedexterious!

leftie

innie

How fun... A good Ike distraction.

Righty and an outie!! lol

DH- Righty and an innie

DS-Lefty-innie

DD- Rughty- innie

GD #1 Lefty- innie

GD #2 Righty- outie

Hmmm... this is a tough one... I don't know if this will help you out, I have an innie, but I'm ambidextrous.

Aquene,
Moe/WautuckquesSochepo

i hope everyone is having a good weekend (so far) and really appreciate all the responses.
this is really turning into an interesting project and i'm surprised at some of the information collected. just from skimming the posts and my notes of the random polling i've been doing... i do not believe i have found an outie/righty.

but plenty of innies

so far it also seems the information supports the hypothesis. which is odd. i was certainly not expecting that. though there is no shortage of lefty/innies... it appears the majority up to this point have outies.

RE-read mine I am an outie /righty!!!

Lefty and innie
SE is righty and innie

Judy, my spousal equivalent, is a RN. She thinks innie or outie has more to do with the way the cord was cut and birth weight as opposed to genetic traits.

I am no RN or DR either, but I think it has to do, not with the way it was cut, but the drying and falling off. If it is removed too early, it can leave scarring that leads to an outie, if it dries completely before falling off, an innie.

(this is my totally non medical opinion)

Too funny.
Both my DH and I are Righty - innies.

Righty/Innie!

yes the belly button has very little to do with genetic traits. the professor wants us to find how something genitically ingrained relates to a nongenetic trait.
being a lefty or righty is a genetic trait, even if it can be overcome with training. being an innie or outie is merely a physical trait...

half of the class has to say... if you are genetically predisposed to such and such you are more likely have yadda yadda as a physical trait. and show why. (i got stuck on this side)
half of the class has to prove the theory wrong.

being on the side that is making the original statement... i aim to show a statistical probability that a purely physical trait can relate to a genetic predisposition. (plus the kid i got paired with is really annoying. "not all physical traits are genetic" isn't getting him an A on this one, he's actually going to have to work for it.)

Maybe left-handed Drs/nurses tie outies, and right-handed Drs/nurses tie innies, or vice versa. LOL : )
~Lucy

ROTFL

that is an interesting theory lucy

It makes sense to me. Us lefties have to watch how a righty does something then flop it over and do it backward. Perhaps some lefty doctors don't flop it over and people end up with an outie.

LOL, always thought righties were backward!

heheh, will have to rethink this.

righty-inny. :D

thanks everyone. off to write the paper.

happy gardening.

jleigh - Good luck with your report. Remember -- no naming names!! LOL