{"id":2388,"date":"2014-12-05T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:30:10","slug":"bad-news-for-tom-harvard-says-lefties-less-successful-than-righties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"Bad news for Tom: harvard says lefties less successful than righties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this explains my problems! And it&#39;s Harvard wo we know it must be true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2014\/12\/03\/harvard-study-lefties-earn-less-than-righties\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">A new study by a Harvard University economist says lefties generally make less money than righties, and they may be worse off in other areas of life, too.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cLefties exhibit economically and statistically significant human capital deficits relative to righties, even conditional on infant <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2014\/12\/03\/harvard-study-lefties-earn-less-than-righties\/#\" id=\"itxthook3\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; display: inline;\">health<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" id=\"itxthook3icon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" style=\"padding-top: 0px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important; margin: 0px!important;\" \/><\/a> and family background,\u201d Goodman writes. \u201cLefties work in more manually intensive occupations than do righties, further suggesting that their primary labor market disadvantage is cognitive rather than physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh. And it gets worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cLefties have more emotional and behavioral problems, have more <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2014\/12\/03\/harvard-study-lefties-earn-less-than-righties\/#\" id=\"itxthook5\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; display: inline;\">learning<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" id=\"itxthook5icon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" style=\"padding-top: 0px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important; margin: 0px!important;\" \/><\/a> disabilities such as dyslexia, complete less schooling, and work in occupations requiring less cognitive skill,\u201d Goodman said.<\/p>\n<p>But leftie pitchers are in demand! And four of last seven Presidents have been left-handed (but maybe that proves the point?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this explains my problems! And it&#39;s Harvard wo we know it must be true. A new study by a Harvard University economist says lefties generally make less money than righties, and they may be worse off in other areas of life, too. \u201cLefties exhibit economically and statistically significant human capital deficits relative to righties, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}