It appears that left-handed males with some college education earn more money than right-handed males (no effect is seen for women). One popular media presentation of this "research" is provided by Reuters via Yahoo and which provides a link to a PDF of the original report http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060811/od_nm/life_lefties_dc&printer=1
The CNN news headline makes the main conclusion more obvious: http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/10/news/funny/lefties.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest The researchers are academics associated with different universities but the report is part of a series sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and their top 25 most read papers are available at: (the handedness paper is #12387) http://www.nber.org/top25.html The data used for the analysis is based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) but it only uses data from the 1993 cohort (indeed, though the report has a 2006 copyright, the first version of it is dated 1997) which may raise some questions about the "freshness" of the data and whether the relationships in existence circa 1993 are still present 13 years later. -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
