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Too many lefties here? | 56 comments (56 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Too many lefties here? (none / 1)

Left-handers are bullied as children

How common is this today (as opposed to even 40 years ago? I wasn't.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 12:04:11 PM EST
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Re: Too many lefties here? (none / 1)

I'm just assuming it is more likely given all the other information given in the original quote about "social skills", school performance and adult PTSD.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 12:08:08 PM EST
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Re: Too many lefties here? (none / 1)

I get it, so you mean bullied in general, not bullied for being left-handed.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 12:20:06 PM EST
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Re: Too many lefties here? (none / 0)

I am taking left-handedness as the most easily ascertained characteristic in a cluster of correlated neurophysiological characteristics.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 12:24:53 PM EST
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Re: Too many lefties here? (none / 0)

Is it? I'm told most "left-handed" people are left-handed in some things, and right-handed or both-handed in others. Though if we focus only on writing, that may be enough for the purposes of correlatedness.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 01:06:09 PM EST
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Well, that would be the "theory" I was advancing in my top-level comment.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 01:11:58 PM EST
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