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Left-handed People and Accidents
Which hand do you use to do most things 一 your left hand or your right
one? Most people prefer to use their right hand more. IF this is true of
you, then you are right.handed. Left-handed people,( 1 ), are those
5 who use their left hand to do most things 一 eating, writing, holding tools
or throwing balls,( 2 ). Aperson whose left hand is used more can
alsobe( 3 )alefthander.
A Canadian scientist who's been studying lefthanded people, has made
some Surprising discoveries about them. The scientist found that left-
10 handers have many more accidents than righthanded people.
The study was made of almost 1,900 left-handed students at the
University of British Columbia over a two-year period. It was discovered
that left-handed people are forty-nine percent more likely to have an
accident at home than righthanded people. They are twenty-five percent
15 more likely to have an accident at work. And they are twenty percent
more likely to have an accident while( 4 ) sports activities.
Many accidents suffered by lefthanded people happen when they use
electric power tools. This is because the tools are designed to be held
and used easily by right-handers. So, in order to operate them. a left-
20 handed person must use his right hand or else turn his body in a strange
position.( 5 ),lefthanders are fifty-four percent more jikely to have,
an accident while using power tools than right-handers. (231 語)
