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Originally posted by ntluser
It's significant because we read from left to right and when you look at the page of a book the left eye is naturally facing the correct starting point i.e. the left hand side whereas if the right eye is dominant it has to move across to look at the start of the line which slows down reading.
Efffective readers read in smooth eye movements from left to right pausing for brief intervals (microseconds) at 2 or 3 points along the line to take in groups of words and derive meaning from what they are reading. Children who are right eye dominant (as I was) are fighting a natural urge to read from right to left and have to be trained to use their left eye as the dominant eye. I wore a patch over my right eye which forced my lazy left eye to be more dominant. When I left primary school I had a reading age of about 14 but then I did start reading at 3.
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But what about those races who read from right to left?