This group called the left handers are trying to make a statement on how left handed people shouldn't be left out of what right handed people have . And though left-handers are 10% of our population it seems that everybody everyone has forgotten about us or don't even care about us anymore .
Scientists aren't exactly sure, but research points to a complex collaboration between genes and environment. While no exact set of "leftie genes" have been discovered, people who dominantly use their left hands do have more left-handed family members. And researchers have found different brain wirings in righties vs. lefties.
According to research published in the American Journal of Psychology, there is some evidence that left-handed people have the upper hand in at least one creative facet - they're better at divergent thinking, a method of idea generation that explores many possible solutions.
So to determine whether lefties were more likely to pursue creative careers than righties, the folks behind Left-Handers' Club (a pro-leftie group dedicated to left-handed research and product development ) surveyed more than 2,000 left-handed, right-handed, and ambidextrous participants. What did they find? Lefties tended to find advantages and be drawn to careers in the arts, music, sports, and information technology fields.
The lengthy list of left-handed leaders includes four of the last seven commanders in chief - President Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Gerald Ford - as well as past presidents James Garfield and Harry Truman. In fact, there's a rumor that Ronald Regan was born a leftie, but stringent schoolteachers converted him to a righty when he was .
Dutch study suggests that left-handed politicians actually have an advantage in televised debates. As a whole, people tend to associate right-handed gestures with "good" and left-handed gestures with "bad," according to the researchers. Since television presents a mirror image, the lefties are the ones who appear to gesture with their right hand (the "good" hand).
Southpaws Will Beat You in Sports
Golf legend Phil Mickelson; tennis ace Rafael Nadal; boxing champ Oscar de la Hoya - did you know that a number of your favorite sports superstars are lefties?
Actually, left-handers may have the advantage in sports that involve two opponents facing each other, such as tennis, boxing, and baseball, according to an MSNBC review of the book The Puzzle of Left-Handedness by Rik Smits. The author chalks it up to the fact that left-handed athletes get a lot more opportunity to practice against right-handed opponents than vice versa (since there are so many more righties out there).Now that's a homerun for lefties.
If you're a left-hander, that probably made you cringe. That's because people who use their left hands tend to be more affected by fear than people who use their right hands, according to recent research presented at the annual conference of the British Psychology Society.
If you just can't get let go of that spat you had with your right-handed pal (but he seemed to move on just fine), you may be able to blame it on your handedness: According to a small study published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease , lefties are more prone to having negative emotions. In addition, they seem to have a more difficult time processing their feelings.
Mark your calendar - August 13 is International Left-Hander's Day.Lefties across the globe will be celebrating the event, which was first launched in 1992 by the UK-based Left-Hander's Club to increase awareness about the left-handed lifestyle. According to the group's Web site, it's a day "when left-handers everywhere can celebrate their sinistrality and increase public awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed."
Left-handers are the minority - so does that mean they'll go extinct one day? Nah! In fact, some researchers believe that when it comes to survival of the fittest, lefties come out on top.
Here's why: In man-on-man combat, using the left-hand is like throwing a curveball. "The fact that left-handers are less common means they have a surprise effect."In more violent societies, they found that lefties thrived (think southpaw slugger Rocky Balboa's left hook).Looks like the left hand has the upper hand after all.
In conclusion ,So for all of you lefties, leftie-loving righties, and ambidextrous folks out there - it's time to brush up on your left-handed knowledge and help put an end to leftie discrimination once and for all.
