damn straight

[mrbedpost]

Are left-handed people smarter?

Yep. According to researcher Alan Searleman, southpaws have higher IQs, solve problems better and enjoy more extensive vocabularies than righties. Lefty cases in point: Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, for starters. Not to mention every U.S. president since 1981, except this one

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[msbeanhead]

Sometimes I think having a worse memory would serve me well in social situations.

I also wonder whether my son is actually ambidextrous or just experimenting. Did it say anything about both-handed people?

[mrbedpost]

i was very disappointed the little article was so short as well. I for one was ambidextrous as a child and eventually settled into leftiness for drawing and painting. However for many activities such as sports I seem to have picked up with different hands arbitrarily. I will look and see if there is a more in depth article.

Make Things Easier for Your Left-Handed Child

[mrbedpost]

http://earlychildhood.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_lefthanded_child

Interesting Characteristics of a Left-Handed Person

[mrbedpost]

For every 10 individual, there is one who is left-handed. And most of the left handed are males and among twins, one of them is left-handed