The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Statistically speaking, about 90% of you listening to my words right now are right-handed. Of the rest of you, almost all of you will be left-handed.

The question of why so many more people are right-handed as opposed to left-handed is one that people have been asking for centuries.

It's an imbalance that has existed throughout his life. is one that people have been asking for centuries.

It's an imbalance that has existed throughout history and across every culture.

Learn more about righties and lefties, and why the imbalance between them exists

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The issue of hand dominance is a really weird one. If hand dominance were totally random and there was a

50-50 split in right and left-handed people that would kind of make sense. It

would be like sex selection at conception. Everyone is assigned their sex at conception

completely randomly based on genetics. If hand dominance were 100%, that too would

kind of make sense. All humans have eyes, ears, nose, and feet.

If everyone had the same hand dominance, it would just be another part of being human.

However, neither one of those is the reality we live in. It's neither random nor universal.

The number usually given for the percentage of people who are right-handed is about 90%.

The remaining 10% of left-handed people are a minority, but not so small of a minority

as to be chalked up to a genetic defect.

FYI, for the purposes of this episode, I'm going to ignore people who are

ambidextrous or mixed-handed. Ambidextrous people can use either hand

equally well and mixed-handed people use one hand for some things and their other hand for other things.

Those are both real things, but their numbers are so statistically small that it isn't

worth constantly bringing up.

They are around or under 1% of the population.

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