Is glove always right?

[Vort]

While cleaning out the garage, I generated a pile of unmated gloves. When I tried to mate them up, I found that I had 21 total gloves that made 6 pairs. This left me with nine unmated gloves. Curiously, of these gloves, eight were for the right hand. I am no statistician, but I believe that the odds that eight of nine randomly chosen gloves being right-handed is 9/2⁹, or about 1 in 57. If this is a random event, then having eight of the nine be left-handed gloves would be equally interesting, so I'll double the probability of this unusual one-handed dominance to be about 1 in 23, roughly 3%. Not astronomical odds by any means, but not exactly likely.

What do you think? Is the fact that I and my family are right-handed somehow at the root of this strange preponderance of right-handed gloves? Or is it all just a random occurrence?

[Backroads]

Bah. Some sticker bushes had stealthily invaded my garden, so I went to the garage for some work gloves. Actually found a matching pair. No right-handed only gloves in this house.

As for the math, I do like to think your family is a factor in the right-handed glove plethora.

Edited August 4, 2017 by Backroads

[Guest]

If it doesn't fit you must acquit.

(speaking of jokes that aren't funny but I can't resist telling)

[pam]

1 minute ago, DoctorLemon said:

If it doesn't fit you must acquit.

(speaking of jokes that aren't funny but I can't resist telling)

Whew...at least I wasn't the only one that immediately thought of that.

[Mike]

1 hour ago, Vort said:

What do you think? Is the fact that I and my family are right-handed somehow at the root of this strange preponderance of right-handed gloves? Or is it all just a random occurrence?

Now that you raise the issue I observe that I typically have left-handed work gloves without mates. I am left-handed. My sampling is less than half of your sampling. I suspect you'll require more participants.

 

[Jojo Bags]

3 hours ago, Vort said:

Or is it all just a random occurrence?

Nope.  It's the same, identical reason why your socks go missing.  You can have ten pairs of socks of different colors and patters, but one sock out of the pairs will eventually be missing until you have five random pairs.  There is only one proven, scientific reason for this: gremlins.

 

Edited August 4, 2017 by Jojo Bags

[zil]

But at least we know where the missing sock goes:

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Hozone (ho' zohn) - n. The place where one sock in every laundry load disappears to.

 

[Backroads]

40 minutes ago, Jojo Bags said:

Nope.  It's the same, identical reason why your socks go missing.  You can have ten pairs of socks of different colors and patters, but one sock out of the pairs will eventually be missing until you have five random pairs.  There is only one proven, scientific reason for this: gremlins.

 

Yet professionals keep passing on this silly myth they actually wind up behind the washing machine's drum. It's like we're still in the dark ages.

[Guest]

19 hours ago, Vort said:

What do you think? Is the fact that I and my family are right-handed somehow at the root of this strange preponderance of right-handed gloves? Or is it all just a random occurrence?

You forgot to take into account the tetrad of solar eclipses.?

[Sunday21]

20 hours ago, Vort said:

While cleaning out the garage, I generated a pile of unmated gloves. When I tried to mate them up, I found that I had 21 total gloves that made 6 pairs. This left me with nine unmated gloves. Curiously, of these gloves, eight were for the right hand. I am no statistician, but I believe that the odds that eight of nine randomly chosen gloves being right-handed is 9/2⁹, or about 1 in 57. If this is a random event, then having eight of the nine be left-handed gloves would be equally interesting, so I'll double the probability of this unusual one-handed dominance to be about 1 in 23, roughly 3%. Not astronomical odds by any means, but not exactly likely.

What do you think? Is the fact that I and my family are right-handed somehow at the root of this strange preponderance of right-handed gloves? Or is it all just a random occurrence?

I have the same problem with dishwashing/washing-up gloves!

[mordorbund]

Right glove, left glove, it doesn't matter. Glove is glove is glove is glove is glove is glove is glove is glove.

[NeuroTypical]

Zen.

[person0]

On 8/4/2017 at 3:42 PM, Vort said:

Is the fact that I and my family are right-handed somehow at the root of this strange preponderance of right-handed gloves? Or is it all just a random occurrence?

I suppose I should mention that I told my left handed cousin that you would probably have a stock pile of extra gloves when he cam asking for some.  He and his 8 left handed children each took one of the left handed gloves.  I told them you were right handed so they figured you wouldn't miss them.  

[anatess2]

On 8/4/2017 at 3:42 PM, Vort said:

While cleaning out the garage, I generated a pile of unmated gloves. When I tried to mate them up, I found that I had 21 total gloves that made 6 pairs. This left me with nine unmated gloves. Curiously, of these gloves, eight were for the right hand. I am no statistician, but I believe that the odds that eight of nine randomly chosen gloves being right-handed is 9/2⁹, or about 1 in 57. If this is a random event, then having eight of the nine be left-handed gloves would be equally interesting, so I'll double the probability of this unusual one-handed dominance to be about 1 in 23, roughly 3%. Not astronomical odds by any means, but not exactly likely.

What do you think? Is the fact that I and my family are right-handed somehow at the root of this strange preponderance of right-handed gloves? Or is it all just a random occurrence?

WHOA!  This happens at my house!  No, seriously... Out of the 4 members in my family, 3 are right-handed and 1 is ambidextrous.  The ambi kid prefers to use his left hand when strength is involved - like using pipe cutters.  And he is always complaining about not finding left-handed glove!  And I sill don't know where the left gloves go.  My gloves - I have small hands so none of them can use my gloves - are always in there as a pair.

Edited August 16, 2017 by anatess2

[seashmore]

On August 16, 2017 at 2:38 PM, mordorbund said:

Right glove, left glove, it doesn't matter. Glove is glove is glove is glove is glove is glove is glove is glove.

Absolutely true if you only buy the 2/$1 knit pairs that go on either hand. (I can fit the kids sizes, so I get fun ones for cheap!)