Your link is interesting. My research has shown so far that us lefties are over-represented in the extremes of intelligence – both extremely high (eg 20% of Mensa members are lefties) and the extremely low… so we might want to be a bit careful how we boast about this one!

Re safety: yes, we\’re more at risk, but the biggest and most concerning thing so far is the access to emergency/critical stop buttons on machines seems to very strongly favour right-handers – so if a leftie gets caught it is harder or impossible to reach a critical stop.

Also some fascinating links with size of company and who considers handedness as an accident root cause – more to come on this!

Robyn

And yes, I\’m left-handed too. We do make up for it in other ways though. Here\’s an excerpt from http://medind.nic.in/jak/t07/i1/jakt07i1p85.pdf:

\”Increase in ratio of lefthanders
can produce a corresponding
intellectual advance and leap in the number
of mathematical, sporting or artistic geniuses\”