EpeeGnome

I’m American, and in my experience anyone with actual training on canoeing technique would stay on one side like you’re supposed to, but plenty of people also go canoeing who don’t know any better and switch sides to attempt to steer. I grew up canoeing and immediately was annoyed by the forward turn section of the diagram.

Yes, I just glossed over that detail by saying “similar to”, but that is a more accurate explanation.

Unfortunately the most probable response to a question is an authoritative answer, so that’s what usually comes out of them. They don’t actually know what they do or don’t know. If they happen to describe themselves accurately, it’s only because a similar description was in the training data, or they where specifically instructed to answer that way.