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Lesley E. Tan investigated the relationship between left-handedness vs. right-handedness and motor competence in preschool children.

From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013

As the daughter and mother of lefties, I find the practice of forced conversion to right-handedness gauche and appalling.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2013

Ed Grimm New York If only 10 percent of the population is left-handed, why did evolution select a preference for right-handedness?

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2011

One reader of last night's posts even went so far as to write that the White Sox power hitters wouldn't do well at Safeco Field because of their right-handedness.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2010

If, when tested, they should be found correct, they would be sufficient answer to several of the theories of right-handedness heretofore urged, as has been already remarked.

From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark