At 05:18 PM 10/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Marjorie, > >What does this say for those who are ami-dexterous as I am? > >* seattle* Audrey IT SAID: Pressures in the first quarter of the past century to force children to write right handed appear to have had some effect, but they do not totally account for all the discrepancy in the amount of left-handed people in elderly and young populations. Gender differences in the make-up of the oldest old population may have an effect because women predominate in populations of the oldest old. Well, that's what is said!! just me, Marjorie