Reply #30: I've read where life expectancy is lower for lefties [View All]

[kskiska]

My mother and sister are lefties. My mother was coerced into using her right hand in school. She could write with both. It must really screw up one's brain to have to constantly use implements designed for righties. Maybe they're more accident-prone.

Here's something on that:
"Left-handed people are almost twice as likely to suffer a serious accident as right-handers, according to a recent study. Stanley Coren, an experimental psychologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, claims that his finding helps to explain why less than 1 per cent of all 80year-olds are 'southpaws,' whereas they comprise nearly 13 per cent of all people aged 20."

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf068/sf068b08.htm