Are all left handed people rich or tightwads?
441855
I wish I was rich!  And, I am a very generous person.
110987
I believe that I was taught it is genetic... your mother or your father have the gene and pass it to you... they don't have to be a lefty... only have the gene
372112
There are a ton of studies that have been done trying to distinguish intelligence based on which hand you use the most. Some people will argue that lefties are more artistic, creative, imaginative people which right-handers are more scientific, grounded, imperative thinkers.\n\nThis has to do with which hemisphere of the brain is being used and all that wonderful scientific jazz. "Smart" is a subjective term and relative to each individual.\n\nI think the only real difference between lefties and right-handers is that you don't want to seat them next to each other during dinner. That would be a catastrophe.
235595
Some things can difficult. Selection when it comes to buying some things can be drastically less for a lefty. Instead of about 100 guitars at the music store, I had to choose from about 10...and that goes the same for pretty much all sports equipment - baseball gloves, even hockey equipment sometimes.\nWhile most people sit in any random spot when being seated in a restaurant, I have learned to favor the far left seat on the end (if it's a square table)...or any seat where I won't be bumping elbows with someone to my left.\n\nOn the opposite spectrum, being lefty has its perks. Being forced to learn to do some things most other do, I use both right and left hands for many things...and using your weaker hand is a good exercise for your brain-you get more use out of it. Also, I can operate my mouse with my right hand, and use my digital drawing tablet with my left...I don't have to switch between the two to use both. It may seem minor, but it's really convenient.\n\nI agree with the answers here that say we tend to easily adapt to the right-handed world, and we make a good complement as well.
888344
I always get on from the left.  It's where the kick-stand is, so it has nothing to do with being a righty or lefty.  It is also the side I get in to drive my car (not in the UK) and the appropriate side to get on a horse.  Seeing a trend here?  ...and I'm right-handed
766102
=those that can use both hands equally will get along better if they were to loose the use of their dominant hand.  My guess of the two would be right handed because that is left brain controlled.
734098
All right - six billion or so people on the planet. Figure 10% are left-handed. That's 600 million. Then maybe 5% have hazel eyes? So, that's about 30 million, give or take.
814537
Interesting note on this.\nMy brother and I have both trained at the same school for the same time frame. I am right handed and he is left handed. we are the same height, weight and build.\nWhen we workout together we draw a crowd as we match each others movements so well. When we kumite it is hard for us to hit each other cleanly, we usually land equal blows but on different sides. We are too evenly matched and similar, there is rarely a clean exchange.\n\nThis doesn't really answer your question but it relates to the left hand/ right hand thing.
242984
there are left handed scholarship
332201
You have simply found a unique viewpoint.  Americans, by percentage, are no more left-handed than any other culture.  The dominance of one hand over the other, at this point, seems to be a simply random occurance.  Right handed people, of course, ARE more prevelent..as is proven by the fact that most items used are geared toward right handed folk.  Speaking as an ambidextrous person, I have the best of both worlds..especially the time I broke my right hand. :o)
956500
BECAUSE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD USE THEIR RIGHT HAND TO WORK.
135951
Sorry, I have to disagree with everyone else - Left hand itchy, money coming in - Right hand itchy, money going out. Mainly because most people reach for their wallet (when paying for something) with their right hand....
1122225
I do. I heard right handed people live an average of 10 years longer and shotgun means the passenger side I believe..right next to the driver.
934822
I, too am right-handed & use my left.
1005068
Very interesting question.  I haven't read anything about someone's brain being flip-flopped so that language areas would be on the other side of the brain.  But that doesn't mean it's impossible.  It simply means there isn't enough research on the subject.\n\nConcerning left-handedness, I got the following statistics from wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed#Statistics_of_left-handedness)  \n\n"Approximately 10% of the population is left-handed. People who can use both hands equally well are ambidextrous. True ambidexterity is rare.  Generally, there are about 10% more male left handers than female left handers (5.24% Male, 4.76% Female). Approximately one-third of identical twins are left-handed. [1] Statistically, the twin of a left-handed person has a 76% chance of being left-handed."\n\nI found some very interesting articles on dominance, cross - dominance, and ambidexterity.  I also found article on rare health conditions where organs are on the opposite side of the body.  (Such as dextrocardia, where the heart is on the right side instead of the left).  I know these aren't about being left-handed or right-handed.  But it goes to show that body parts can be in the wrong places.  I have provided links below.
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I'm a little confused because you didn't say if one hand was better at doing any of these things than the other.  I can write fine with my left hand but I'm MUCH faster with my right.  I can do a lot of things left handed without much of a problem but my right hand works much better so I'm "right handed".   You're not considered truly ambidextrous if you favor one hand for most "precise fine motor skill operations", usually writing (some musical instruments don't count, like violin)  \n\nMixed-handedness is if different hands are better at different tasks.  If you write and sew better with your left hand but brush your teeth and eat better with the right, you might be called "mixed-handed".  But most people would say you were left handed since the fine motor skills were performed better with your left hand. You could call some of these people "ambidextrous with a left preference" (or right preference) \n\nOne 1962 poll found that 2% of people called themselves 'ambidextrous'.  A 1992 survey found only 1% claimed to be.  Many of the people who were polled still favored the left hand.  It is more common for left handed people to have some control over their right hand than vice versa.  They are not considered truly ambidextrous unless they can perform ALL tasks equally with both hands without favoring one over the other.  Everything I've read says this is "very rare".
19763
It's a very good question. But it would be even better if you asked other way around. \n\nBecause, people who are left-handed are right. cz left side of the brain controls the muscles and also it is a bit faster than left.\n\nBut if you ask the other way around, that why many of us do it wrong? I really don't know. But can guess that its more cultural thing than anything else.\n\nhttp://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/lefthand.asp