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500_Apples
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posted 16 August 2006 01:49 PM
Sinister and RichThe evidence that lefties earn more.
By Joel Waldfogel
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, at 12:19 PM ET quote:
But that's not the case. In the new U.S. study, authors Christopher S. Ruebeck of Lafayette College and Joseph E. Harrington and Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University looked at a representative sample of 5,000 men and women in the United States. Across the board, they found no discernible difference between the average hourly earnings, and other characteristics, of left- and right-handed people. Both groups earned an average of $13.20 per hour in 1993. They also had identical average intelligence scores. The British study, by Kevin Denny of University College Dublin and Vincent O'Sullivan of the University of Warwick, looked at about 5,000 people born in 1958 and found modest earnings differences: 5 percent higher pay for male lefties relative to their right-handed counterparts and 5 percent lower pay for female lefties compared to female righties.What's more noteworthy is that the pay difference appears to increase with college education. In the U.S. study, college graduates overall earned an average of 30 percent more than high-school graduates. And after accounting for other determinants of pay—age, intelligence, marital status, and race and ethnicity—lefties with college education earned 10 to 15 percent more than their right-handed counterparts. (The U.K. study did not look at the effect of college education on the earning power of lefties and righties.)
That's kind of surprising. Any thoughts? Slate.com Link [ 16 August 2006: Message edited by: 500_Apples ]
From: Montreal, Quebec | Registered: Jun 2006
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Sans Tache
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posted 08 September 2006 03:15 PM
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Why would anyone think that there ought to be a difference?
It’s because, and I am going back a few years but left handed people, in panic tend to steer their automobiles to the left and into on coming traffic. Where as right handed people tend to steer their cars to the right for the same occurrence. Each can cause a collision but the lefty’s can be deadly. Maybe, life would be safer for lefties in the UK, Japan or other counties that drive on the opposite side of the road. As for typical or ordinary tools, scissors, openers and planned conveniences, they are designed for right handed people. Even the keyboard and mouse on the computer have more functionality to for the right side. It's good motor-skill activity practice for lefties to use their right hand more often. If there is a relationship between left handedness and income, maybe it’s because the lefty has had to think differently and that is a key factor in making more money. (oh, oh, I hope the political lefties don’t read this theory, I am already in trouble in other threads...)
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Cueball
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posted 08 September 2006 04:52 PM
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Originally posted by 500_Apples:
Sinister and RichThe evidence that lefties earn more.
By Joel Waldfogel
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, at 12:19 PM ET That's kind of surprising. Any thoughts? Slate.com Link [ 16 August 2006: Message edited by: 500_Apples ]
Lefties are smarter than righties, as in "if your so smart why aren't you rich?"
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