Remember that oldie by The Rooftop Singers, "Walk Right In"? Well sir or ma'am, modern research says they should have called it "Walk Left In."
And don't blame the Rooftops; the song dates back to 1929 and an original record by Carson's Jug Stompers.
But, according to science (and since school is back in sesh, better pay attention!) we humans tend to walk the way the other humans walk, and that means veering to the left as you strut about.
They even go so far as to say that we still do this even if no one else is around!
A new study says humans instinctively drift left, or counterclockwise, when we walk — even if no one else is around.
These were the highly-regarded researchers from the University of Navarra. They checked out the gaits of hundreds of people in Spain and Japan, and they say no matter what, no matter where, and even if the people are right-or-left handed - they're leaning left!
“Our findings are highly consistent,” the researchers recently wrote in the journal, Nature Communications....because, “regardless of crowd size, boundary effects or laterality traits such as handedness, footedness and eye dominance, counterclockwise motion systematically emerges.”
The ancients never suspected that the feet have their own brain!
The researches looked at all sorts of people in all sorts of situations on all kinds of terrain, and they are dead to rights, we walk left.
I can only hope that I was not among the unsuspecting amblers being tracked or filmed or whatever they did. As the owner-operator of two replaced knees, I tend to left them decide which way to go.
It does no good to argue with titanium.
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