Left V Right
Are there more boys who are left handed than Girls? Or are there more girls who are left handed than boys? How many baseball players are left handed?
Left or right handed task orientation, or handedness, may appear to occur almost at random. But a wealth of research is available to suggest that, to the contrary, handedness is the result of a number of factors. These imply that in fact, a complex array of inborn neurological traits and learned environmental factors contribute to one's handedness. This may account for the higher relative proportion of left-handed girls than boys. With that said, even given the extensive research which has been conducted on this subject, there is little certainty as to whether this is a trait which is more directly influenced before birth or at an early stage of development.
Indeed, factors such as blood-flow in the brain and the size of specific lobes may be responsible for the distribution of handedness, though there still remains a great deal of uncertainty as to the extent such factors influence hand orientation and at one point in their development these factors take on their particular attributes. This is the claim driving the research conducted by Okada et al. (1992), which identifies the brain's blood movement patterns are responsible for the orientation of individuals toward right brain and left brain activities. This hemispheric predilection could in turn...
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