• 6nk06@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    The number of left-handed people increased due to the trauma of WW1 and WW2. No more increase since wars have stopped in the world. Amazing.

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      8 days ago

      Is there evidence that trauma causes left-handedness? I’d always heard that this was due to people no longer being punished for being left-handed, making it a good comparison for people fearmongering about rising rates of recorded transness or autism.

      That would also imply that the trauma of ww1+2 are continuing to make people born in the 90s and 2000s left handed

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        8 days ago

        It’s a joke that the rise in left handedness correlated to the time period of the war. It’s just pointing out a spurious correlation, and falsely equating the two.

        Either you just whooshed really hard, or I am by posting this. I genuinely can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

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          7 days ago

          Oh I couldn’t tell that the comment I was replying to was being sarcastic, I’m a tad autistic.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 days ago

        I think that poster is wrong by attributing it all to the war, but what they’re implying with trauma is physical trauma causing the non-functioning, or requiring the amputation, of a right-handed person’s right hand. Probably a lot more acceptable to be left-handed when your right one has been blown off and all.