What makes left handed people different?
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First off, what cause us (I'm left handed also) to be left handed is that we are right brained. Secondly, right brained people usually have great talents in the arts, such as music, drawing, acting, ect. \n\n(Many of Hollywoods actors are left-handed)
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Since the vast majority are right handed, most things are designed with this in mind.\n\nWhen you hold the remote control, the power button is placed to be more comfortable pressed with the right thumb.\n\nThe handles of Scissors are formed to fit the contour of one's right hand.\n\nIn the US, the shift knob is on the right of the driver.\n\nOn bolt action rifles, the bolt is on the right side of the weapon (the lock-n-load mechanism of an M16 is too)\n\n... Get the point ?
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i'm right handed. did u know that 85%of the world are right handed. about 20 years ago and before that if u were left handed u still had to write with ure right!
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There are a ton of studies that have been done trying to distinguish intelligence based on which hand you use the most. Some people will argue that lefties are more artistic, creative, imaginative people which right-handers are more scientific, grounded, imperative thinkers.\n\nThis has to do with which hemisphere of the brain is being used and all that wonderful scientific jazz. "Smart" is a subjective term and relative to each individual.\n\nI think the only real difference between lefties and right-handers is that you don't want to seat them next to each other during dinner. That would be a catastrophe.
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You have simply found a unique viewpoint.  Americans, by percentage, are no more left-handed than any other culture.  The dominance of one hand over the other, at this point, seems to be a simply random occurance.  Right handed people, of course, ARE more prevelent..as is proven by the fact that most items used are geared toward right handed folk.  Speaking as an ambidextrous person, I have the best of both worlds..especially the time I broke my right hand. :o)
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Nope, sorry it's just a myth.  My daughter and brother-in-law are both left handed and avoid math at all costs.  My cousin is also left handed and is okay in math, but certainly not better at it that most of the population.
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As a rule, if you are right handed, your right hand is the hand you project with, the left is the one you receive with.  If you're left handed, it's the other way.  So, it really depends on what you're trying to do.
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When you extend your right hand toward someone facing you, it is on their left side. Perhaps when your father was holding something in his left hand and extended it to you, he was typically putting it in your right hand. Thus you were prone to use your right hand more. Similarly, if you were holding items in your dominant hand (right) and extending it forward to your son, it would go to his left hand.\n\nHandedness can be influenced by environment. For instance, only letting a child use an implement in their right (or left) hand will make them right (or left) handeded. So the natural tendency to extend something straight ahead when facing a child will put the item in their opposite side hand.
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Check out Stephen's answer, he's right. Left handers have a great advantage because it's the left hand that does all the hard work. No need to muck about with the strings, especially if you're starting from scratch -- get a good teacher.
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Even if both a man and women are left handed and had kids, there chances of their child of being left-handed is less then 50%.\n\nanything else like one lefty parent, and one righty parent, or both right parents are even a lesser chance.  \n\nIts most likely genetics.  You must have been skipped.
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Yes- Prince Charles is a left hander - Read\n\nIf you've ever felt lonely as a Southpaw, take heart. There are a lot of you around. Presidents, athletes, actors, musicians - people from all walks of life are left-handed. Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover, just to name a few presidents. Queen Victoria of England, Prince Charles, Prince William, Dan Ackroyd, Julius Caesar, Buzz Aldrin and many, many other famous people are left-handed.
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Human laterality\n\nThe significant majority of humans are right-handed. Many are also right-sided in general (that is, they prefer to use their right eye, right foot and right ear if forced to make a choice between the two). The reasons for this are not fully understood, but it is thought that because the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain controls the right side of the body, the right side is generally stronger; it is suggested that the left cerebral hemisphere is dominant over the right in most humans because in 90-92% of all humans the left hemisphere is the language hemisphere.\n\nHuman cultures are predominantly right-handed, and so the right-sided trend may be socially as well as biologically enforced. This is quite apparent from a quick survey of languages. The English word "left" comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "lyft" which means "weak" or "useless". Similarly, the French word for left, "gauche", is also used to mean "awkward" or "tactless". Also, sinistra, the Latin word from which the English word "sinister" was derived, means "left".\n\nThis linguistic and social bias is not restricted to European cultures: for example, Chinese characters are designed for right-handers to write, and no significant left-handed culture has ever been found in the world.\n\nAmbidexterity is when a person has approximately equal strength in both hands and/or both sides of the body. True ambidexterity is very rare. Although a small number of people can write competently with both hands and use both sides of their body well, even these people usually show preference for one side of their body over the other. However, this preference is not necessarily consistent for all activities. Some people may for example use their right hand for writing, and their left hand for playing racket sports and eating (See also: cross-dominance).\n\nAlso, it is not uncommon that people preferring to use the right hand prefer to use the left leg, e.g. when using a shovel, kicking a football, or operating control pedals. In many cases, this may be because they are disposed for left-handedness but have been trained for right-handedness. Shovels are usually designed to be used with either foot.\n\nApproximate statistics are below: [1]\n\nFavoring right hand: 88.2% \nFavoring right foot: 81.0% \nFavoring right eye: 71.1% \nFavoring right ear: 59.1% \nSame hand and foot: 84% \nSame ear and eye: 61.8% \n\nClockwise and counter-clockwise\n \nMost humans that are right-handed prefer to draw their circles counter-clockwise and traverse building counter-clockwise. This is thought to have come about due to a dominant brain hemisphere. [2]\n\nHandedness\n\nHandedness is an attribute of human beings defined by their unequal distribution of fine motor skill between the left and right hands. An individual who is more dextrous with the right hand is called right-handed, and one who is more skilled with the left is said to be left-handed. A minority of people are equally skilled with both hands, and are termed ambidextrous. People who demonstrate awkwardness with both hands are said to be ambilevous or ambisinister. Ambisinistrous motor skills or a low level of dexterity may be the result of a debilitating physical condition. There are four main types of handedness:\n\nRight-handedness is the most common. Right-handed people are more dextrous with their right hands when performing a task. \nLeft-handedness is less common than right-handedness. Left-handed people are more dextrous with their left hands when performing a task. \n\nMixed-handedness, also known as cross-dominance, is being able to do different tasks better with different hands. For example, mixed-handed persons might write better with their right hand but throw a ball more efficiently with their left hand. This could also refer to pianists, because different sections of pieces are usually composed to fit the abilities of
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Where does it matter we are luckey to have both hands..think of poor guys with only single hand...!!!\nby the way i am right handed..!!!
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Approximately 10% of the population classify themselves as being left-handed, with the percentage slightly higher for males and lower for females (McManus, 2002). Faurie and Raymond (2004) reviewed handedness frequency over more than ten thousand years (the oldest evidence coming from Palaeolithic ‘negative hand’ paintings), and determined that there was no difference between the oldest sample and the proportions found in university students today.\n\nHope that helps!
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Left handed people use the right side of their brain to perform tasks such as writing, because the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.\n\nI've heard that some, but not all, left handed people have their speech centers in different locations than most right handed people.\n\nIf a person switches their hand of dominance, for example, a left handed person starts writing with their right hand, they will eventually use both sides of their brain to perform this task.
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I am a left hander and instresting that in my Computer Science class the majority of my friends were left handers and the only australian girl was a left hander. I did some art units and I was the only left hander in the class.\n\nSo I do think that there are special talents from what hand you are
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Many factors to consider.  Statistics may not be accurate.  There are more right handed people still alive at 80, but there were more right handed people to start with.  The percentages of both groups tend to show that other factors are far more important than being right or left handed.  Important factors include where you live, when you were born, how large of a family, family health history, access to good healthcare, and perhaps most imporant is your personal habits like diet and smoking and drinking.  Once you calculate all of these variables there is a slight advantage to being right handed.  That advantage lies primarily in how right handed people are treated in our society, meaning they are more likely to achieve higher positions where education and employment are concerned.  If you think I'm wrong do some research on left handed executives.  Left handed people have all of the same opportunities, except that they may be discrimanted against.  Those doing the discriminating will not even know why they have done it, or in fact that they have done it at all.  Same thing goes for fat people or bald people or ugly people.  You don't find too many fat bald ugly lefthanded top executives.  I myself was lefthanded as a child, but once I recognized how the world works I taught my right hand to do everything.  This has helped me to skyrocket to the position of YahooGuru.  I hope I have been of service to you.