Handedness
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handedness-207-496534
title:
Handedness
text:
In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, less dextrous or simply less subjectively preferred, is called the non-dominant hand. In a study from 1975 on 7,688 children in US grades 1–6, left handers comprised 9.6% of the sample, with 10.5% of male children and 8.7% of female children being left-handed. Overall, around 90% of people are
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Preference or tendency
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness
date created:
2003-01-22T11:59:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T22:32:03Z
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13
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