The surprising geography of American left-handedness (2015)
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#3The archive.org link doesn't seem to have captured TFA.
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#4The archive.org link doesn't seem to have captured TFA. https://archive.ph/y543P
Maybe the html caption under the image broke their parser
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#5The geographical weirdness: left-handedness is much more widespread in Northeast, with some less prominent peaks in Florida, Arizona, South Dakota. The source is suggested to be genetic.
I wonder if there's information on how many passengers of the Mayflower were left-handed.
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#6Quote from the article
One of the best available data sets on left-handedness comes from a scratch-and-sniff survey of olfactory ability mailed out to millions of National Geographic subscribers in the 1980s.
Go ahead and read that sentence again — it doesn't get any less weird the second time around.
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#7The geographical weirdness: left-handedness is much more widespread in Northeast, with some less prominent peaks in Florida, Arizona, South Dakota. The source is suggested to be genetic. I wonder if there's information on how many passengers of the Mayflower were left-handed.
> I wonder if there's information on how many passengers of the Mayflower were left-handed.
Probably 0% reported, considering the negative views towards left-handedness at the time.
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#8The geographical weirdness: left-handedness is much more widespread in Northeast, with some less prominent peaks in Florida, Arizona, South Dakota. The source is suggested to be genetic. I wonder if there's information on how many passengers of the Mayflower were left-handed.
My son is left handed. Nobody else in my or my wife’s family is or has been left handed, that we know of. And we don’t live in one of the mentioned areas. It seems odd, but I’ve never looked into it.
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#9founder effect, or bias of kindergarten teachers in that area having an outsized effect picking ambidextrous students to be left handed.
Re: The surprising geography of American left-handedness (2015)
#10The geographical weirdness: left-handedness is much more widespread in Northeast, with some less prominent peaks in Florida, Arizona, South Dakota. The source is suggested to be genetic. I wonder if there's information on how many passengers of the Mayflower were left-handed.
My son is left handed. Nobody else in my or my wife’s family is or has been left handed, that we know of. And we don’t live in one of the mentioned areas. It seems odd, but I’ve never looked into it.
I’m the same. No one in my family tree going back to my great grandparents were lefties. Nor any cousins or 2nd cousins. Just me.