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Males are more likely to be left handed than females.
There is a higher proportion of left-handers among architects, engineers, university mathematics teachers, mathematics students, artists, astronauts, chess masters, and performing musicians than in the general population.
According to Jerre Levy, 60 percent of left-handers have their speech and language control in their left hemisphere (as do right handed people). These tend to be left-handers who write with a "hooked" hand posture.
40 percent of left-handers have speech and language controlled in their right hemispheres. These lefties tend to write with their hands in an "upright" posture.
Reading disabilities, stuttering, autism, immune diseases, migraine headaches, allergies, eczema, and some categories of mental retardation are more prevalent in left-handers than in right-handers.
Left-handers are more likely to precocious, mathematical, and less skilled at verbal tasks (except for analogies).
Young people are more likely to be left-handed than elderly people (Halpern, 1992; Gilbert & Wysocki, 1992). Coren and Halpern (1991) call this the "elimination hypothesis" suggesting that left-handers are more accident prone and more prone to immune diseases. Others believe this is an example of social patterns forcing lefties to become right handed (Harris, 1993).
There is a higher proportion of left-handers among architects, engineers, university mathematics teachers, mathematics students, artists, astronauts, chess masters, and performing musicians than in the general population.
According to Jerre Levy, 60 percent of left-handers have their speech and language control in their left hemisphere (as do right handed people). These tend to be left-handers who write with a "hooked" hand posture.
40 percent of left-handers have speech and language controlled in their right hemispheres. These lefties tend to write with their hands in an "upright" posture.
Reading disabilities, stuttering, autism, immune diseases, migraine headaches, allergies, eczema, and some categories of mental retardation are more prevalent in left-handers than in right-handers.
Left-handers are more likely to precocious, mathematical, and less skilled at verbal tasks (except for analogies).
Young people are more likely to be left-handed than elderly people (Halpern, 1992; Gilbert & Wysocki, 1992). Coren and Halpern (1991) call this the "elimination hypothesis" suggesting that left-handers are more accident prone and more prone to immune diseases. Others believe this is an example of social patterns forcing lefties to become right handed (Harris, 1993).