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  2. Bias against left-handed people - Wikipedia

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    A left-handed shooter must either purchase a left-handed or ambidextrous firearm (which are manufactured in smaller numbers and are generally more expensive and/or harder to obtain), shoot a right-handed gun left-handed (which presents certain difficulties, such as the controls being improperly located for the left hand or hot shell cases being ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Cross-dominance - Wikipedia

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    Cross-dominance, also known as mixed-handedness, hand confusion, or mixed dominance, is a motor skill manifestation in which a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others, or a hand and the contralateral leg. For example, a cross-dominant person might write with the left hand and do everything else with the right one, or ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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]

  7. 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!

  8. 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.

  9. International Lefthanders Day - Wikipedia

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    The holiday celebrates left-handed people's uniqueness and differences, a subset of humanity comprising seven to ten percent of the world's population. [3] The day also spreads awareness on issues faced by left-handers, e.g. the importance of the special needs for left-handed children, and the likelihood for left-handers to develop schizophrenia.