Topic - Left Handed Characteristics. Let’s face it. It’s a right-handed world!
10% of people are left-handed and being left-handed is only partly due to genetics.
If mother is exposed to extreme stress during pregnancy, the child is likely to be left-handed. Babies who are born to older mothers or have lower birth weights are likely to be left-handed.
There is no difference in IQs, but lefties are better at divergent thinking which is where you start problem-solving from existing knowledge and create new concepts.
They are more creative than us righties! Lefties’ salaries are 10% lower than righties and they run a greater risk of psychiatric disorders.
Fully 20% of schizophrenics are left-handed. Lefties are unique and celebrated.
August 13 is International Left-Handers Day! I wonder what Prince William, Angelina Jolie and Robert DeNiro do on left-handers’ day to celebrate!