{"id":9709,"date":"2013-09-16T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9709"},"modified":"2013-09-16T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:02:53","slug":"the-myth-of-the-left-handed-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-myth-of-the-left-handed-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth Of The Left-Handed Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091613_0252_TheMythOfTh1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While left-handed people were once persecuted, today they are thought to have extraordinary capabilities. Every post-Cold War American President except for one has, for example, been left-handed. And even though left-handed people only make up 10% of the population they make up 25% of math professors at MIT. Allison Schrager, however, points to research that indicates that left-handed people aren&#8217;t particularly exceptional:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Left-handed individuals are more likely to have a lower level of cognitive skills \u2013 debunking the idea that they&#8217;re mad geniuses.<\/li>\n<li>Left-handed people earn 6% less than right-handed people, and are less likely to have a college degree.<\/li>\n<li>Left-handed people are also more likely to have learning disabilities and behavioural issues.<\/li>\n<li>This is because there are two types of left-handed people. Those who were born with the left-handed gene, and those who are &#8220;environmental lefties&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Infants in utero who experience trauma or whose mothers experience stress are more likely to be left-handed. These individuals are known as environmental lefties.<\/li>\n<li>Once environmental lefties are controlled for it turns out that there is little difference in cognitive ability or earnings between right and left-handed people.<\/li>\n<li>Thus there is no difference between those who are right and left-handed for genetic reasons. But those who are left-handed for trauma related reasons have difficulties &#8211; as would, presumably, right-handed people who had suffered trauma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the background of the research, who conducted it, and more of its findings over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/122272\/dispelling-the-myth-of-the-left-handed-genius\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/122272\/dispelling-the-myth-of-the-left-handed-genius\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While left-handed people were once persecuted, today they are thought to have extraordinary capabilities. Every post-Cold War American President except for one has, for example, been left-handed. And even though left-handed people only make up 10% of the population they make up 25% of math professors at MIT. Allison Schrager, however, points to research that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091613_0252_TheMythOfTh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}