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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.
Let’s face it: the world is designed for right-handed folks, from notebooks and pens to instruments, gears, and tools.Left-handed people have to struggle to find things that work for them or ...
Left-handed pen nibs are not generally easy to find, and strokes may have to be done backwards from traditional right-handed calligraphic work rules to avoid nib jamming and splatter. Left-handed people have an advantage in learning 19th-century copperplate hands, which control line-width by pressure on the point. [citation needed]
Left-handed people make up about 10% of the population, and southpaws are often known to be incredibly creative. They may also even have more satisfying sex lives.
Handedness displays a complex inheritance pattern. For example, if both parents of a child are left-handed, there is a 26% chance of that child being left-handed. [23] A large study of twins from 25,732 families by Medland et al. (2006) indicates that the heritability of handedness is roughly 24%. [24]
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.
Also, naturally left-handed musicians have to play with right-handed-only instruments (violin, viola, cello). Kurt Cobain, frontman of Nirvana, was naturally ambidextrous. He grew up having a slight preference for his left-hand (as can be seen in many of his childhood photographies), but as an adult he wrote right-handed.
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! 14 things you never knew about left-handed people