[DomLuka] Lefty's?

[Benji]

Never heard this one before (maybe I should stick my head out of the closet more often). But I caught part of a conversation in which Barbata Walters stated "That a new survey found that 50% of all gays are left-handed" Huh!! (I guess I'll stop using this analogy when telling people being gay is genetics like being left-handed.) So I asked a couple of friends and got 50%. So what do you think?

[celloandy]

Per this article in New York Magazine, the statistic is actually that gays are 50% more likely to be left-handed than straights. If memory serves, 10% of people are lefties, so I guess 15%-ish of gays should be lefties. Maybe Barbara misspoke.

 

Andrew

[AFriendlyFace]

Maybe Barbara misspoke.

Or perhaps she was just expressing her View

[Bob D.]

There was a girl in my research methods class that did her project on this. She did an independent survey on handedness and sexual preference.

 

What she found was: (gay includes lesbian in it's descriptive)

 

More gays are left-handed than right-handed

 

More bi's are left-handed or ambidextrious than right-handed

 

and more bi/gays ring fingers are longer than their pointer-finger...

 

Genetics... there seems to be a pattern...

 

I don't remember the actual stats, and I don't have a way to get them, but I remember her results.

 

Bob