stackyFACTSA highly flawed 1991 study claimed lefties died nine years earlier because they supposedly kept getting killed by right-handed power tools.
A highly flawed 1991 study claimed lefties died nine years earlier because they supposedly kept getting killed by right-handed power tools. It turned out the data was hopelessly skewed because 'left-handedness' was severely stigmatized earlier in the 20th century. Many natural lefties had been beaten by teachers into using their right hand, artificially warping the historical mortality data. Lefties live just as long as anyone else.
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