Left handed. More generalisations...

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I am left-handed. Indeed, people close to me have said I am the most left-handed person they have come across.

So I looked at this post by Chris Dillow with a lot of interest.

Apparently, I am more likely to be depressed than right-handers - although my usual state is positively overbrimming, I have probably scored over the two-weeks test in the past couple of years. (Still, I feel pretty positive about this!)

On the other hand, I am also meant to earn 5% more than right-handers, so maybe it is worth. And I should move to the States - where I'd earn 15% more.

And of course I am a wonderful footballer. (This last bit, unfortunately isn't proven.)

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I'd always had this theory that left handers were, in general, more intelligent than right handers. I based this rather unscientifically on the fact that about half of the academics I've dealt with are left handed, which is obviously way higher a proportion than in general society.

As I understand it, left handers don't have such a demarkation of what side of the brain does what. That makes sense to me as I've always considered a sign of true mental ability being the ability to see a logical situation in an abstract manner and vice versa - being able to juggle these things must be easier if they aren't so physically separate?

All of that might be a load of dingo's kidneys, but it is the vague idea of someone who knows naff all about neurology.