Does anyone know any true facts about left handed people?

Question

im left handed just curious

Answer 1

uhm...all i know is that in general you guys have it harder than right handed people, since most tools are designed for the right handed mass.

I believe in some sports, like cricket, baseball and softball being a lefty is an advantage, since left handed people play with more right handed people than the other way around.

Answer 2

I heard that lefthanded people on average die younger than righthanded people, but that seems kind of ridiculous. I'd be interesting to see if that was true, and if so, if there's actually a correlation between lefthandedness and age of death.

Answer 3

nobodys perfect

Answer 4

http://www.lefthandzone.com/site/684713/...

http://www.lefthandersday.com/tour6.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...

It's perfectly all right to be left handed.

Answer 5

Well from the fact that I read a while ago, 11 percent of the world's population are left-handed.

Answer 6

Gerald Ford was only left handed only when he was sitting down...He threw a ball, played golf and wrote on a blackboard right-handed.



If both parents are left handed, 50% of their offspring will be left handed. 2 Righties only have 2% chance of having a leftie

There are twice as many left handed boys than girls

Some famous left-handed people:  Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Richard Pryor, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Deniro, Benjamin Franklin, Whoopi Goldberg, Jimi Hendrix, Babe Ruth, Joan of Arc

Answer 7

i saw a documentary once that claimed left handed individuals are more likely to be a twin (or from a pregnancy that started as twins)

thanks to religion - for centuries anything having to do with the 'left' was bad or evil - thus you never shake hands with your left - its considered an insult

children were forced to write with their right hands in school (my grandpa used to get the strap if they caught him using his left hand)

in the Middle East they never eat with the left hand - cause that is the 'dirty' hand - you wipe your back side with - so if they catch you stealing the cut off the right hand always - so you'll always be a social out cast

Answer 8

Difficult to write/spell as we always drag our hand over the lead/ink.  Ugh.

Answer 9

ur mostly right brained dominate, so ur usually exelling in the arts. and u write with ur left hand. duh.

Answer 10

there is a strong tendency for them to not be right-handed

Answer 11

They're charming and very intelligent!

Answer 12

lefties catch h**l --literally-- in much of the world and throughout most of history, including in language itself...

Ursula LeGuin's book "The Left Hand of Darkness."

the French word for 'left' is 'gauche' which translates as 'awkward' in English

the English word 'sinister' has its roots in Latin, as does Italian...the word for 'left' in Italian is 'sinistra.'

I was one of those people born left-handed but was changed to a right-hander by my grandmother, who was also born left-handed but had her left hand tied behind her back during her waking hours so she could only use her right hand. In my case, rather than tie my left hand behind my back, she would slap my left hand any time I reached for anything with my left hand.

People back then (I'm old) were superstitious and believed that left-handedness was a negative thing, whether being associated with wiping one's butt with the left hand or being the hand of the Devil or whatever. Granny did the same to my mother (her daughter) as well.

I am told that being 'changed' like that often leads to stuttering; I don't know if there is indeed any correlation, but my mother stuttered her whole life. I stuttered when I was younger, but outgrew it (with a lot of effort) by the time I finished high school.

Answer 13

* 10% of the population is left handed.

* 40% of the student body at MIT is left handed.

* left handed people are more prone to near-sightedness, asthma and lactose intolerance

* it is legal to discriminate based on ones handedness.

* in the early space program, during the Gemini and Apollo missions, a left and right handed pair of astronauts were chosen to each could have their favored hand in access of the flight control stick.

* left handed people are more prone to divorce

* left handed people have IQ on average 20 points higher than the national average.

* in the Middle Ages, writing with your left hand was punishable by death

* Remington makes a left handed shotgun

* in the Middle Ages, using any weapon with your left hand only was considered a mortal sin

* half of left handed people use a computer mouse with their right hand.