Coss eye dominance

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Percentage-wise, are more right-handed players cross eye dominant than left-handed players?

Could cross eye dominance be the result of a person being nurtured in the opposite handedness of their biological predisposition?

If someone who's never hit ball decides to take-up the game, should they learn to play according to dominant-eye or handedness, supposing there's a discrepancy?
 
Can't speak for everone!

I have an issue with cross eye domanice. I can do most things in life with either hand, but when I comes pool, and all sporting activities I am very right handed. It showed up most when I took up long rifle shooting couldn't hit the broad side of the barn! Once I figured out what was going on I got a left-handed gun still couldn't shoot well. Set a right handed gun up for me and won shooter of the year the next session. No one ever really pushed one way or the other but once I figured it out about what eye to look out I got better at all sportinging activities. Just my 2 cents for what's it worth.
 
PhilosopherKing said:
If someone who's never hit ball decides to take-up the game, should they learn to play according to dominant-eye or handedness, supposing there's a discrepancy?
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I'd have to play dominant handed and live with being cross-dominant. Just seems like a much easier adjustment.

Then there's this: Looking sideways, like cross-dominant players often do, is known to cause a shift in eye dominance toward the eye on the side closest to the thing looked at. Maybe there's a benefit even if that's already your dominant eye... it gets more dominant?

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PhilosopherKing said:
Percentage-wise, are more right-handed players cross eye dominant than left-handed players?

Could cross eye dominance be the result of a person being nurtured in the opposite handedness of their biological predisposition?

If someone who's never hit ball decides to take-up the game, should they learn to play according to dominant-eye or handedness, supposing there's a discrepancy?
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Players should start out with whichever feels most comfortable. There is at least one top pro who is left handed but plays right handed. I know two strong shortstops who are right handed but play left handed. Each one has said pool felt more comfortable playing that way.

Where it gets murky is whether or not your face is square to shot line or not. I think a majority of players will say they are cross dominant but their head is titled in one direction making one eye closer to the target than the other. If they square their head, then the cue is actually centered between their eyes. The truly cross dominant players have the cue under that eye when their head is square to shot line. It is easier to see with pros because most of them are square. Tougher to tell with a lot of amateurs.
 
PhilosopherKing said:
Percentage-wise, are more right-handed players cross eye dominant than left-handed players?

Could cross eye dominance be the result of a person being nurtured in the opposite handedness of their biological predisposition?

If someone who's never hit ball decides to take-up the game, should they learn to play according to dominant-eye or handedness, supposing there's a discrepancy?
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I don't think think right handedness and right eye dominance are related at all. Your dominant hand refers to coordination only (writing, throwing, kicking, etc.). When it comes to your five senses, both sides of the body are relatively neutral but either side can be dominant regardless of coordination.

For example, you may be right handed but if you close your eyes and touch something, your right hand doesn't feel the object any better than your left. The same goes for your nose, ears, eyes, tongue, etc.
 
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Patrick Johnson said:
Science disagrees with you:

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Interesting find and good read, thanks. They're assumption could be correct but more information is needed as they suggest: "...and we argue that further data are now required to model properly the associations of writing hand, throwing hand, and eyedness..."
 
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