re eye dominance in article apr porthos cc bellcore com jil donuts uucp jamie lubin writes in article pitt uucp geb cs pitt edu gordon banks writes in article c e g world std com rsilver world std com richard silver writes is there a right eye dominance eyedness as there is an overall right handedness in the population i mean do most people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the other if so what kinds of percentages can be attached to this there is eye dominance same as handedness and usually for the same side it has nothing to do with refractive error however i recall reading seeing that former baseball star chris chambliss hitting abilities were in part attributed to a combination of left handedness right eye dominance i was part of a study a few years ago at the university of arizona to see whether cross dominant individuals those with a particular handedness but who had dominance in the opposite eye were better hitters than those with same side dominance of hand and eye i was picked from my softball class because i was cross dominant right hand left eye which put me in a small minority and the grad student was trying to get an equal number of cross dominant and same side dominant people to control the study she used a pitching machine fast pitch since i was used to slow pitch i didn t come close actually i think i foul tipped a few to hitting the ball if there were a lot of people like me in her study i e those who can t hit fast pitch or are not used to hitting off a machine i would seriously question the results of that study i think there have been some studies of major league players across a fairly large cross section of players to test whether eye dominance being the same or opposite side was better but i don t know the results the woman who ran the study i was in said that there was a higher incidence of crossdominance in major leaguers than across the general population but i m not sure whether i d believe her janice rathmann
