First off Chimera I enjoyed that post I wonder what percentage of readers got it? My younger brother was naturally left handed and growing up in a conservative part of the world we actually smacked him (not hard) when he would use his left hand, Yes I know it was wrong but he ended up being completely ambidextrous so in the long run it was a gift as that is a big help in most sports, He can actually hit a golf ball just as well either way and in racquet sports he has no back hand when needed this is a huge bonus in squash. he was scouted by some Ivy league Universities for his abilities as a hockey goalie as he has no weak side. I find it interesting that in Hockey, yes I am Canadian if my spelling of certain words has not already given that away, I am right handed and shoot right handed where most right handed players shoot left.
I was in a relationship for a few years with a leftie so I notice more often now if people are right or left handed…
I read the post that stated 13% (figures vary) she told me 7 % and after extensive personal research, I googled it, I believe 10% is closer to the actual number, there are definite differences she also claimed shorter life spans, more prone to mental illness, and alcoholism but I do not know where she got that information. I did not do “extensive research” but she is a sponge for languages speaking English, and learning Spanish and Mandarin very quickly, but slightly challenged in math, whereas I am the opposite.
I find it interesting that 4 of the last 7 American presidents are lefties Reagan was rumoured to be but he had the same experience as my brother, also he was an actor, I do think and it is just my opinion from that left handed people are more apt to be artistic.
there must be studies that have been done but a simple polling of SAG would be interesting.
I would give my left arm to be ambidextrous!
Whether you’re right or left brained can only be positively determined by brain imaging, not by behavior even if there is some correlation.
Anecdote: my mother was a lefty, did not write with a “hook”, and after her stroke medical testing revealed that she was, indeed, right-brained. Fortunately for her, because of the location of her stroke if she had been a normal left-brained person the aftermath would have been more debilitating than it was.
I see Bart Simpson made the list, as should Ned Flanders and C. Montgomery Burns.
Also, there’s an unusually high amount of U.S. Presidents in recent history who are left-handed. Lefties rule!!
As you might guess, I’m left-handed. Fun fact- my entire family is left-handed: me, my wife, and our two boys. When my wife and I watch a movie or a TV show and I see one of the characters writing with his left hand, I always say “leftie!”. It does seem like there are a lot of left-handed actors, but that might only be selection bias on my part.
Meet my family. Counting ONLY my first-degree relatives (parents, siblings and children) there are three lefties.
Lots of lefties in my family, too, although I’m not one of them. My dad’s dad was naturally ambidextrous. He could literaly write two different things, one with each hand, at the same time. Most people from that era were ambidextrous only because schools tried to ‘train’ the left-handers to be right-handers, but from what I was told, Grandfather was a natural, not taught.
Both my boys are lefties, and both play sports right-handed. In fact, I’d say that each of them split between left and right-handedness far more than you’d expect. Maybe a little legacy from great-granddad.
The Muppets are generally left handed. E.g., Kermit playing the banjo. (Although he is partially ambidextrous as he has occasionally played it right handed.)
Can’t imagine a reason for this bias.
Wow, somebody else with your username said pretty much the same thing a couple of years ago, back in post 19! but broke it down a little bit more 
**I’ve tended to notice lefties all my adult life (Let’s not do the math on how long that’s been) because when I was growing up, people kept asking me if I was left-handed when I was writing. This puzzled and vaguely annoyed me as I was obviously using my right hand but finally, at some point in late high school, I finally noticed someone left-handed as they were writing.
Suddenly I realized why I kept getting asked that–it was the way I held my pen when I wrote. In fact, I “hooked” my hand more than a lot of lefties I’ve seen. It was worse when I was little but my fourth grade teacher stayed after school with me trying to help fix it. She never could break me of it but she did lessen it a good bit.
My dad was born as a leftie but that was back when they tended to make you change to being a rightie. He was totally right-handed during my life. I never had any inclination toward left-handedness and, in fact, am quite awkward when I do try to use my left hand.
I saw an article once that mentioned righties who hook (in a non-prostitution sort of way) but it just had a brief line about how it might be related to brain damage. I like the theory about being right-brained a lot better.
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Really? You must be dyslexic
Wow. Almost 3.5 years since this post, and nobody apparently picked up on it.
Chimera, I hereby give you a belated slap with a wet fish.
But included Wade Boggs and Lou Whitaker, who, like all middle infielders/third basemen, were right handed.
anyone mention that there seem to be a lot of left handed presidents the last 50 years?
During the 1996 election, all three candidates (Clinton, Dole, Perot) were left-handed.
Well, Dole wrote with his left hand but wasn’t actually left-handed - his right arm was permanently crippled in World War 2.
They actually are all right-handed, but are playing characters who are left-handed.
Dang it you beat me to it! I am Registered Nurse, and taught Anatomy & Physiology for years. Dexter versus sinister was a big topic of discussion when teaching terminology.
I noticed in my staff nursing days of working in the Operating Room, a lot of surgeons and fellow nurses were lefties.
I am left-handed myself, and the only one in my family. The only thing I do right-handed is cut with scissors, specifically my dress-making shears. I tried the left-handed scissors and I feel like I can’t see the cutting edge of the fabric, it’s on the other side. I don’t like it. So I had to retrain my brain. But then again, sewing machines are set up for right-handed people, too. Oh the discrimination! lol!
My Grandfather was ambidextrious, but I think he was actually left-handed, as he told of being punished in school for using his left hand (teacher tied his hand behind his back), so he had to learn to use his right.
I am a hooker (also in the non-prostitutorial way) and I am sure I can’t tell anone here who is left-handed anything they don’t know already know…like the torture device that is the spiral notebook…I just flipped it over and wrote on the back. But in my current profession I work around a lot of Physical and Occupational Therapists, I was talking about how much trouble I have with ink pens, that some will not work for me, ever. I keep throwing perfectly good pens away. And she pointed out that it is because when right-handed people write, they typically “pull” the ink from the pen, so it flows. The problem with us lefty hookers, is that we typically “push” the pen when we write, so the ink won’t flow as easily. She recommended the Ink Joy pens. And they do make me happy!
This does occur. I was listening to the first season Game of Thrones commentary wherein they mentioned that right-handed Maisie Williams learned to do swordfighting scenes with her left hand because Arya Stark is left-handed in the books.
In an unpublished, 1993 Meta analysis written by Seddom and McManus involving approximately 284k people in approximately 80 studies with appoximately 100 groups the incidence of left-handedness was found to be 7.78 %. According to the authors this correlates well with historical data/observations
I am a SUPER movie buff and even have a letter from a pretty good director/producer. And I have noticed an excess of left-hand actors. There’s hardly a director on earth that would tell a right-handed actor to play a left handed one. Well, maybe Stanley Kubrick. I’m going to keep googling this. Maybe it applied to all artists.
I reread. Any idiot can get a letter from a director/producer. The letter certifies that I am as well film savvy as any UCLA film school graduate.