Lefties aren’t so gifted after all

Despite popular belief, left-handers are no more gifted than their right-handed counterparts, with Flinders research finding that some left-handed children actually have lower cognitive abilities.

Discounting the ‘leftie’ myth

Left-handed people consistently perform worse than right-handed people in measures of cognitive ability, or IQ, with the ‘level of disability’ equivalent to being prematurely born.