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That is a rather tiny difference in percentage, is it even statistically significant in relation to the samples?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/math/0/b/7/0b7491a8614d7808364b...
and in particular imagine what'll happen when you have, on average, 28000 responders per state and what kinds of differences you can expect to observe.
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I've never heard of fundamentalist Christians being anti-left-handed. And I am one.
The left side being evil and related to the Devil is pretty embedded in Christianity.
I grew up in southeast Oklahoma, as well as all my family.. Teachers spewing off about left handedness being evil is surprisingly common, though I didn't expect it to persist to today. Anecdotal accounts: my wife was told being left hand was evil (she was ambidextrous) and she was converted to fully right handed in 1st grade (1990s). My step-brother's kindergarten teacher constantly picked on him for being left hande…
> my wife was told being left hand was evil (she was ambidextrous) and she was converted to fully right handed in 1st grade (1990s). The 1990s? Is that a typo?
My parents are right handed. I'm left handed. Had a pretty hard time in communist Poland too. It started with a kind of wrong diagnosis where the doctor told my parents that I'm both and that they could choose which side I'd use. So my grandparents lobbied for right. I started out left but it was hard with a fountain pen and since I had nobody to help me out with that my parents finally broke and told me to learn wri…
You are the 9% (if both parents are righties, then there is a 9% chance of a left handed baby). What's interesting about left handedness is that even if both parents are lefties, the kid's chance is only 26%. Which is strangely low for something where there is some generic link. If one parent is a lefty the chance drops to 19%, and if no parent is a lefty then it is 9%. The average over society is 10% of the populati…
What's up with Oklahoma is a larger concentration of fundamentalist Christians who are anti-science and therefore ignorant of many modern scientific advances; and also hold a lot of prejudices from bygone eras.
I've never heard of fundamentalist Christians being anti-left-handed. And I am one.
* The Earth is 6,000 years old * Man walked with Dinosaurs * Being Gay is a choice * Yoga Leads to Satanic Possession * Being Left Handed is Bad
I could go on...
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> my wife was told being left hand was evil (she was ambidextrous) and she was converted to fully right handed in 1st grade (1990s). The 1990s? Is that a typo?
My wife is in her 20s, so yes, she was in first grade in the 90s heh
Wow; text can be a dangerous form of communication.
My father's left handed, I'm left handed, my sister's ambidextrous. A couple of her kids are left handed. There is certainly a genetic component. My son's too young yet to have a dominant hand, but I make a point of putting things in his left hand. It's a lifestyle choice. I grew up in Australia in the 70s and 80s, and I don't recall any prejudice against left-handers at the time. I never even really thought about th…
Don't even do that. It can make he use his left hand because you're someway influencing he and if he start writing with non-dominant hand because this he may develop a lot of problems on brain.
> it's a lifestyle choice.
What?! You first said there is certainly a genetic component then it's a lifestyle choice? it isn't.
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I've never heard of fundamentalist Christians being anti-left-handed. And I am one.
My point wasn't that fundamentalist Christians as anti-left-handed because of their Christianity; it's that they hold on to ancient beliefs. * The Earth is 6,000 years old * Man walked with Dinosaurs * Being Gay is a choice * Yoga Leads to Satanic Possession * Being Left Handed is Bad I could go on...
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I've never heard of fundamentalist Christians being anti-left-handed. And I am one.
It's certainly not a secular view.
Those sneaky East Coast lefties !!! sinister (adj.) early 15c., "prompted by malice or ill-will, intending to mislead," from Old French senestre, sinistre "contrary, false; unfavorable; to the left" (14c.), from Latin sinister "left, on the left side" (opposite of dexter) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sinister
and 'maladroit' comes from 'droit', which means 'right' in french.
