Curiosities about lefties

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It is estimated that approximately 10% of the world population is left-handed. It is a seemingly irrelevant fact but, for many years and in different cultures, having more skill in the left hand has been a source of discrimination and social stigma.

"Curiosities about lefties" presents...

Myth: Left-handers live less
Myth: left-handers live less This is one of the most popular myths about left-handed people that emerged from two highly skewed studies published by psychologists Diane F. Halpern and Stanley Coren in 1988 and 1991.

Myth: Lefties are smarter
Myth: left-handed people are smarter One of the classic explanations for this myth is that left-handers use the right hemisphere of the brain more. However, we know that intelligence has many dimensions (emotional, analytical, spatial ...). And, on the other hand, the most recent research has shown, on the one hand, that using more of one area or another of the brain is not related to having more or less intelligence. And, on the other hand, it is not true that left-handers use more of the right hemisphere.

Myth: Left-handers have more tendency to leadership
Myth: Left-handers are more inclined to leadership Only in the US has there been a large proportion of left-handed presidents: Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama ... chance? Well surely. There is no scientific evidence to say that left-handers stand out as leaders.

Myth: Left-handers have more learning problems
Myth: Left-handers have more learning problems Until very recently, the left-handed was considered a deviation and as such it was about correcting from the school. It is normal that these children forced to write and handle with their right hand had more delays in learning, since they were not being allowed to use their left hand.

Myth: Lefties get sick more
Myth: Left-handers become sicker In 1994, Philip Bryden, an expert in the history of psychology, denied this theory after analyzing a total of 89 studies, in which more than 21,000 patients had participated.

Myth: Lefties are more introverted
Myth: left-handed people are more introverted There are no studies that corroborate this aspect. On the contrary, a work carried out by researchers from New Zealand found that there are no differences in extraversion, responsibility, kindness and emotional stability between left-handed and right-handed people.

Other famous lefties
Other famous lefties Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Vladimir Putin, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, Diego Armando Maradona, Barak Obama or Aristotle are part of the huge cast of left-handed personalities.

Left-handed musicians
Left-handed musicians Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Noel Gallagher and Sting are some of the most outstanding lefties in the world of modern music.

Left-handed artists
Left-handed artists Michelangelo, Rubens, MC Escher, Van Gogh, Lewis Carrol and we quote again the versatile Leonardo da Vinci.

Left-handed astronauts
Left-handed astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Charles Duke, Jim Lovell and Ed Mitchell are some famous astronauts with more skill in the left hand.

Left-handed scientists
The most famous are Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton and Alan Turing.

Gadgets for left-handed
Gadgets for lefties Ned Flanders, the neighbor of the Simpsons, decides in one of the chapters to open a store with products for lefties, called The Leftorium. In the real world, the first establishment specialized in this subject was opened in London and is called Anything Left-Handed. Nowadays, and above all thanks to online commerce, left-handed people have it easier and have proliferated products and gadgets such as pens designed so that they do not run ink, can openers, scissors, chairs with a table attached to the left side and a long etcetera.

How many lefties are there in the world?
How many lefties are there in the world? It is estimated that one in ten people in the world is left-handed, and it is also a more frequent characteristic in men than in women. In Spain there are around five million left-handed people.

Do lefties have more sleep problems?
Do lefties have more sleep problems? It is not entirely clear, but this statement comes from a work in which 94% of the left-handed participants experienced rhythmic movements of their legs while they slept, a fact that is associated with a worse quality of sleep.

Difficulties in day to day
Although left-handedness is no longer a cause for social stigma, left-handers encounter some difficulties in the use of everyday objects. One of the most classic are...

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