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reminds me of these statistics:
Without more context hard to infer what it's trying to say, but I think basically, 12% of the population is left handed, but before 1950 we ignored them or forced them into being right handed?
I say forced, because my dad (born in the late 40s, hella boomer) is left handed by nature and he told me as a kid his mom used to take whatever he was holding in his left hand and moved it to his right so he became right handed. Ironically he broke his right hand when I was a tween breaking up a little league brawl and started using his left again, so now he's really ambidextrous.
My grandfather was naturally left-handed, forced to write with his right hand in school, then after school found he could no longer write with decent penmanship with either hand. His penmanship was always terrible for his entire life