Are Leftys More Talented?

Its the exclusivity, I know. Wikipedia gives the statistics that " 7 to 10 percent of the adult population are left-handed, and that left-handedness is more common in males than females."But only if you knew the history behind left-handed folks...just look at that picture below.

The sad little Southpaw strollin' on life... knowing the architecture, design, moral, culture of life have always been again him/her

^{There's this interesting data that left-handed people:}

" occur more frequently in both identical and fraternal twins,and several groups of individuals with neurological disorders (such as people with epilepsy, Down's Syndrome^, autism, mental retardation^[8] and dyslexia)"

Fellow southpaws, don't be distressed. Historically we were discriminated against. Even during my generation, the habit of writing with your left hand was beaten out of you.

But are we fellow southpaws more intelligent? Are there any Left-handed Starchitects?

Chris McManus of University College London argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers' brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centres of the brain.

McManus also says that the increase in the 20th century of people identifying as left-handed could produce a corresponding intellectual advance and a leap in the number of mathematical, sporting, or artistic geniuses.

In 2006, researchers at Lafayette College and Johns Hopkins University in a study found that left-handed men are 15 percent richer than right-handed men for those who attended college, and 26 percent richer if they graduated. The wage difference is still unexplainable and does not appear to apply to women

i guess it sometimes pays to be a lefty.