# lefthandedness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefthandedness/50617>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 18, 2001, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefthandedness/50617 "2001-01-18T02:29:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![insider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@insider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insider)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefthandedness/50617/1 "2001-01-18T02:29:44Z")

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Is there any truth to the position that left handed people die, on average, earlier than right handed people? Do the proportion of left handed people diminish rapidly from age 60-80? Do left handed people develope physical and mental illnesses in greater proportion than their righ handed counterparts? Is the left handed world that different than that of righ handers?

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefthandedness/50617/2 "2001-01-18T02:39:42Z")

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Look [here](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_092.html).

Note to the Moderator: Manny, maybe you should start a thread asking people to check Cecil’s columns before posting to GQ.

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**Author:** ![south333](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@south333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/south333)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefthandedness/50617/3 "2001-01-18T02:40:54Z")

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Now that’s really not what I want to hear!!! I hope your line of questions doesn’t really have any factual basis, because I would be in big trouble!!

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**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefthandedness/50617/4 "2001-01-18T02:45:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by insider \*  
> Is the left handed world that different than that of righ handers?

Go get yourself a crappy ball point pen and write pages and pages of notes in a ‘right handed’ notebook. Look at your hand.

Tell me our lives aren’t miserable.

jarbaby

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lefthandedness/50617/5 "2001-01-18T07:20:46Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Lance Turbo \*  
> Note to the Moderator: Manny, maybe you should start a thread asking people to check Cecil’s columns before posting to GQ.

What a great idea. Why didn’t I think of that?

Actually, I once suggested to manny that he move threads where the OP is the virtually same question as one of Cecil’s columns to CCC. He pretty much ignored this idea.