<p>i'm ambidextrous.. :)</p>
<p>originally right-handed.. but i once broke my right wrist and had to do everythin with the left hand. since then, i've been using my left hand regularly (partly just because taking notes with my left hand took some boredom out of a boring class). though of course, i'm a little slow with my left and my handwriting isn't as good as it is with my right.</p>
<p>My dad is left handed and when he started school (in the 30s) the teachers tried to make him switch him to a righty ... because being left handed is the work of the devil (I'm serious).</p>
<p>My dad and my third kid (the 3rd of 3-to-go) can both pretty much use either hand for anything. They pick an interesting mix of righty and lefty depending on the activity. My guy took forever to pick a hand with which to write ... he randomly used either his right or left when writing for a couple years before settling on his right hand (and given his hand writing I think he picked the wrong hand!)</p>
<p>I thought this was another political thread . . . phew <em>wipes forehead with right hand</em></p>
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<blockquote> <p>My textbook and my instuctor both say 10%. in my english class there is like 15 people in it and three of us are left-handed.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>You'll probably get a much more accurate figure from your textbooks than from a quick glance around your small class or a non-scientific poll here on CC. You need to take a large and scientically-designed sample to get an accurate number, plus there are selection biases all over the place that need to be avoided. If you took your poll among baseball pitchers, you'd conclude that about 30-40% of people are left handed. If you took the same poll among first basemen you'd conclude that almost nobody is.</p>
<p>One interesting study I read showed that the percentage of left handers varies with age. That in children it starts out at about 15%, but the percentage decreases with age. And if you look among 80 year olds, it's down to less than 1%. Some have attributed this to an unexplained shorter life expectancy for left handers - left handers die off sooner. But others have argued that it reflects the old custom, no longer practiced much, of forced conversion of left handers during childhood.</p>
<p>I'm right handed...</p>
<p>Right</p>
<p>My sister is ambidextirous.. My granny found out she was left handed and she called it 'the devil's hand' so my sister was forced to use her right hand, starting from the age of 6.. which was very very very hard for her..</p>
<p>I'm left. I heard it's 7% o_O</p>
<p>I'm left also. A lot of left handed people here lol. People are always amazed when they find out that I'm left-handed I have no idea why.</p>
<p>I'm right handed.
The statisitics on the percentage are highly inconclusive. I hear 20% on one website, 10% on another, 17% on another. The reason they arn't precise is because none of them are even close in range.</p>