Ok, I have an admission to make. No research whatsoever was done for this particular post. Namely because it was an observation in passing that might be of interest to someone, but not particularly to me!
Twelve years ago, when my daughter was small, my wife expressed relief that she showed no left handed tendencies. When I wondered aloud why it mattered, my Chinese wife explained that in the Orient, there was a stigma attached to left handedness. She told about how her mother spent hours taking things out of her siblings left hands and placing them in their right hands. Did it work? Apparently so.
I remember in Medical school years ago, diagrams of right and left side functions that were different in Asians from other groups. Perhaps the study subjects self identified as right handed, indeed never knew any different, when actually they were left handed from birth?
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