There was a great story in the Daily Mail yesterday. Apparently, left-handed men earn 5% more than right handers. A study undertaken by academics at University College, Dublin studied 18,000 people in their 30s and 40s and found that left-handed men earned £1,112 more a year (or 5%) than their right-handed counterparts. Read the full story about left handers earning more.
Interestingly, this contradicts another study carried out by Johns Hopkins University in the States which I wrote about in earlier this year. This study concluded that left-handed men who attended college for at least a year earn 13% more than right-handed men. And those who completed four years at college earn, on average, 21% more than similarly educated right-handed men.
So, who do you believe?
Tuesday 2 December 2008
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Thanks for this post. Well, I wonder what the numbers are for women lefties!
In the study carried out by John Hopkins University, they found no wage differential between left- and right-handed women. Which is odd, I think. And this currentstudy didn't mention women at all!
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