The Star – Alvin Powell
“Joshua Goodman doesn’t seem like such a bad guy — for a righty. It’s just that his research is a major buzzkill. Before Goodman’s latest study, published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, we lefties thought we were special — smarter, more creative. Perhaps it was compensation for having to get along in a righty-centric world, one full of oddly shaped scissors, desks opening on the wrong side, a written language any lefty kindergartener will tell you is backward and a lifetime of elbow-banging dinners with relatives who smile and say, “Oh, that’s right, you’re a lefty.” In fact, not only are we not special, we’re behind in a variety of ways, according to the research. The study grew out of a student’s request for a project idea, one that the student wound up turning down.”(more)