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The chart in the image was reproduced by the Washington Post from a 2009 study by I C McManus
The Post article makes a similar claim to the one in the screenshot
McManus theorizes that the late-Victorian dive in left-handedness reflects stigma against southpaws
But he actually said this is unlikely
One possibility, extensively discussed in the handedness literature, is that left-handers die earlier […] An alternative explanation of the lower rate of left-handedness suggests that the elderly are more likely, because of social pressure, either to have been forced to shift from writing with the left hand to writing with the right hand, or they prefer to call themselves right-handed, because of a taboo against left-handedness. Both this and the differential mortality explanation become unlikely when one looks at the entire Gilbert and Wysocki database […] The best account of the Gilbert and Wysocki data is that it directly reflects the actual rate of left-handedness in the population
(pdf): https://jhanley.biostat.mcgill.ca/bios601/CandHchapter06/HistoryGeographyHumanHandedness.pdf
4·11 days agoI know nationalising water right now would cost hundreds of billions
a hundred billion or so is the government’s own line. other more believable opinions suggest this is bollocks
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/27/how-much-would-it-really-cost-to-nationalise-water
https://weownit.org.uk/news/government-100-billion-water-nationalisation
3·12 days agosome amusing signatories there
Leggs A’Kimbo
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7·23 days agothis is what is supposed to happen to graffiti. the unauthorised & ephemeral nature of it is the point but now middle class wankers cum their drawers when banksy’s instagram confirms half a million quid has been added to their property value and quickly order someone to encase it in perspex
that said the whole commotion of it going up, getting hidden, then getting cleaned was good fun and the scrubbed version does look pretty good
n.b. english judges do not have gavels
neil hopper
what is the opposite of nominative determinism
thanks septic crackhead shilling corporate mandatory fun! i thought i wanted reasonable workload, pay, and time off but no i just need to wear my snakeskin jacket to work. christ these people make me sick
express your individuality through “dopamine dressing”
fuck you
leaders can foster team spirit and cohesion by holding a daily check-in
fuck you
team members ask each other how they respond to stress
fuck you
what Groff calls “thin-slicing” joy
fuck you
at least the comments under the article are pretty sane
the osa was dreamed up by the tories and enthusiastically implemented by labour. even if proportional rep or whatever alternative to fptp was established before the act came into force, there is little chance that one of these main parties wouldn’t have had enough influence to push it through regardless
17·2 months agomeddlesome ratbag caused minor inconvenience to him resulting in good free advertising for his shop, i’d say he wins here
If you’re in need, I understand, and I would never class you as a scumbag if you were doing it out of necessity.
But nobody needs a funky shirt or a pinball machine, they just would like them.
i’d like to see someone shuffling out of there with a pinball machine stuffed in their drawers
this pushed me on to the green bandwagon, signed up today