How to explain all this? The researchers give up: "We do not have a theory that reconciles all of these findings."
Left-handed girls are not bullied as left-handed boys are. Boy and Girl playground dynamics are known to differ substantially. The absence of selection pressure on the left-handed girls due to handedness explains the lack of observed difference as adults.
How's that for a theory? Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
God do I hate this kind of crap. The Fates are kind.
From the above FT article:
research shows that left-handers are more likely to suffer from language disorders, autism, dyslexia, "schizotypal behaviour patterns", seizures and post-traumatic stress disorder.
I'm quoting that lest we forget there's a neurologic basis for left-handedness, which is not fully understood. Provided that scientific curiosity is kept alive, I think the prudence of a sentence like "We do not have a theory that reconciles all of these findings" is commendable. You're clearly a dangerous pinko commie pragmatist.
In 1998, a study suggested that approximately 7 to 10 percent of the adult population was left-handed, and that left-handedness is more common in males than females.
Baby Jesus just hates lefties
How common is this today (as opposed to even 40 years ago? I wasn't. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
