Parents in the 70s and 80s were trying to train their kids out of left-handedness? The 1970s and 1980s? I thought that sort of thing went out in the 1920s and '30s. Certainly no one even suggested it to me with respect to my left-handed son born in 1986. (Though both parents are right-handed, he has 3 left-handed grandparents, 1 born in 1920, who was retrained, and 2 born in the '30s who were not.)
There seems to be a lot of attention given to handedness and its implications, at least in popularized science. Given the amount of genetic diversity among humans, there must be many other "wiring differences" that result in categorizable cognitive and/or behavioural differences that have (so far) been not so obvious as handedness. (Sexual orientation and autism are two that have got some recent attention.) I wonder if the nature vs nurture debate is tipping more towards nature?
Parents in the 70s and 80s were trying to train their kids out of left-handedness? The 1970s and 1980s? I thought that sort of thing went out in the 1920s and '30s. Certainly no one even suggested it to me with respect to my left-handed son born in 1986. (Though both parents are right-handed, he has 3 left-handed grandparents, 1 born in 1920, who was retrained, and 2 born in the '30s who were not.)
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be a lot of attention given to handedness and its implications, at least in popularized science. Given the amount of genetic diversity among humans, there must be many other "wiring differences" that result in categorizable cognitive and/or behavioural differences that have (so far) been not so obvious as handedness. (Sexual orientation and autism are two that have got some recent attention.) I wonder if the nature vs nurture debate is tipping more towards nature?