what percent of the people in the US A are left handed?is this genetic or learned?
2007-02-13 00:28:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i don't know about percentages, but left handedness is genetic, not learned - your brain works differently.
many people from my parents generation, who are now in their 50s and 60s were forced to use their right hand (in the UK), even if they were left handed and so - therefore - right handedness is "learned" for some people.
being ambidextrous is supposedly an ability to use either hand as well as the other, however i suspect this is perhaps more likely a left handed person (with natural skill in their left hand) having trained their right hand (by force through schooling perhaps) to the same standard (er, though that's just a guess, i've done no research).
some people believe that left-handed people are more intelligent, i can't verify that either but i have discovered an amazingly high proportion of left-handers working in IT. several of my friends are left handed (by sheer coincidence), all work in different fields, and all are fairly smart.
oh, i'm left handed too.
2007-02-13 00:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by brightspark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have been left handed all my life as I was born with a physical disability. there was no way any teacher could force me to change to being right handed and I get along very well in a right handed dominated society.
2007-02-13 00:48:09 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am right handed and born that way.
2007-02-13 00:44:30 · answer #3 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
naturally i'm right-handed but I have always eaten with my left hand
and recently I started writing with my left hand.
2007-02-13 09:52:01 · answer #4 · answered by stevovanzant 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋