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The number of left-handed people increased due to the trauma of WW1 and WW2. No more increase since wars have stopped in the world. Amazing.
Is there evidence that trauma causes left-handedness? I'd always heard that this was due to people no longer being punished for being left-handed, making it a good comparison for people fearmongering about rising rates of recorded transness or autism.
That would also imply that the trauma of ww1+2 are continuing to make people born in the 90s and 2000s left handed
Yes, its a quantum epigenetic resonance effect. I can sell you some crystals to treat it, if you like.
I would like 4 epigenetic resonator crystals to go, please. Please make sure they are chock full of orgone.
So much orgonne.
But that’s what ‘orgone’ means, ‘or gone’. Which I support, because fsck Boolean operators.
It’s a joke that the rise in left handedness correlated to the time period of the war. It’s just pointing out a spurious correlation, and falsely equating the two.
Either you just whooshed really hard, or I am by posting this. I genuinely can’t tell if this is sarcasm.
Oh I couldn't tell that the comment I was replying to was being sarcastic, I'm a tad autistic.
I think that poster is wrong by attributing it all to the war, but what they're implying with trauma is physical trauma causing the non-functioning, or requiring the amputation, of a right-handed person's right hand. Probably a lot more acceptable to be left-handed when your right one has been blown off and all.
I'm pretty sure it was just a joke about correlation and causation.