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  2. 24 Things You Didn't Know About Left-Handed People - AOL

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    Older Women Have More Left-Handed Babies. According to one Canadian study, women in their 30s and 40s were far more likely to have left-handed children than younger women. A study of 2,228 college ...

  3. Bias against left-handed people - Wikipedia

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    Owing to cultural and social pressures, many left-handed children were forced to write and perform other activities with their right hands. This conversion can cause multiple problems in the developing left-handed child, including learning disorders, dyslexia, [12] stuttering [13] [14] [15] and other speech disorders. [16]

  4. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    Into the 20th and even the 21st century, left-handed children in Uganda were beaten by schoolteachers or parents for writing with their left hand, [121] or had their left hands tied behind their backs to force them to write with their right hand. [122] As a child, the future British king George VI (1895–1952) was naturally left-handed. He was ...

  5. Twins and handedness - Wikipedia

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    In another study, the frequency of right-handed and left-handed pairs of dizygotic twins is about 23%, while twins with both individuals displaying left-handedness are less than 4% and the frequency of pairs of monozygotic twins in which only one twin is left-handed is about 21% and in which both twins are left-handed is less than 4%. [7]

  6. 14 things you never knew about left-handed people - AOL

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    Only 10 percent of the population is left-handed. While there may not be many of them, being left-handed sure does come with some surprising perks!

  7. Pre-K teacher calls left-handed people 'evil,' forces boy to ...

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    A Pre-K teacher in Oklahoma is in hot water after a mother says the teacher forced her son to write with his right hand, despite the child being left-handed, according to KFOR. Alisha Sands said ...

  8. Neuroanatomy of handedness - Wikipedia

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    Handedness in and of itself tends to be a grey area. The requirements for someone to be right- as opposed to left-handed have been debated, and because individuals who identify as left-handed may also use their right hand for a large number of tasks, identifying two clearcut groups of subjects is a challenging task.

  9. Famous People You Didn't Realize Were Left-Handed - AOL

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    Left-handed people only make up about 10% of the world's population — so you might be surprised to learn how many of them have been world leaders, artists, well-known athletes, award-winning actors.