{"id":1200,"date":"2007-09-24T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/the-lefty-rebound\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:12:14","slug":"the-lefty-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/the-lefty-rebound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lefty Rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;this may only interest me&#8221; file &#8211; Yahoo offers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20070917\/sc_livescience\/numberofleftiesbouncesback\" target=\"_blank\">Number of Lefties Bounces Back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While lefties currently make up about 11 percent of the population, earlier studies found only 3 percent of those <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/livescience\/sc_livescience\/storytext\/numberofleftiesbouncesback\/24490356\/SIG=122o15teu\/*http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/php\/trivia\/index.php?quiz=america1915\">born in 1900<\/a> were left-handed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Left-handedness is important because more than 10 percent of people have their brains organized in a qualitatively different way to other people,&#8221; McManus said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Half my family is left-handed so I am always keen to these articles.&nbsp; And I can confirm that left-handers have a completely different way of thinking.&nbsp; I often tease my left-handed wife that she has laid out a left-handed kitchen&nbsp;since I&nbsp;often get confused about where utensils, pans, etc. are located.<\/p>\n<p>Her response involves my right-handed lack of memory ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;this may only interest me&#8221; file &#8211; Yahoo offers Number of Lefties Bounces Back: While lefties currently make up about 11 percent of the population, earlier studies found only 3 percent of those born in 1900 were left-handed. &#8230; &#8220;Left-handedness is important because more than 10 percent of people have their brains organized in a qualitatively different way to other people,&#8221; McManus said. Half my family is left-handed so I am always keen to these articles.&nbsp; And I can confirm that left-handers have a completely different way of thinking.&nbsp; I often tease my left-handed wife that she has laid out a left-handed kitchen&nbsp;since I&nbsp;often get confused about where&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/the-lefty-rebound\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-jm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2006,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/04\/persuasion-through-scarcity-and-fear-of-loss\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":0},"title":"Persuasion Through Scarcity And Fear Of Loss","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I was a psych major in college which seemed to be the perfect preparation for a sales career.\u00a0 I believe it was.\u00a0 To this day I am still intrigued by the psychology of selling which could truly be described as persuasion. That background helps explain why I found this ManageSmarter.com\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":998,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/text-messaging-in-the-car\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":1},"title":"Text Messaging In The Car","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"As in driving the car!\u00a0 From Yahoo News' Shd u txt, chat n drive? Young drivers say OK\u00a0(my emphasis): A survey by the Zogby International polling firm released on Wednesday found 66 percent of U.S. drivers aged between 18 and 24 send text messages while driving and 93 percent talk\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1500,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/who-needs-validated-assessments\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":2},"title":"Who Needs Validated Assessments?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Especially when you can simply look at someone's shoes.\u00a0 This Yahoo News story has to be an April Fool's joke: Mindset Media, a media company that examines personality traits of different consumers, found that people who buy more than three pairs of sneakers a year are 61 percent more likely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1311,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/candidates-are-negotiating-offers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":3},"title":"Candidates Are Negotiating Offers","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"No surprise here but the Career News is reporting that candidates are negotiating for higher starting salaries in this current market (emphasis mine):\u00a0 Job candidates are more apt to ask for higher starting salaries this coming year, and companies may have to up the ante to attract them. That's according\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":531,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/workplace-fibs-in-britain\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":4},"title":"Workplace Fibs (in Britain)","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From Yahoo News - Gadgets seen as best way to tell white lies: More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a day and the preferred way of being \"economical with the truth\" is to use technology such as cell phones, texts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/stats-on-gen-y-web-use\/","url_meta":{"origin":1200,"position":5},"title":"Stats On Gen Y Web Use","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com's article Seven Out of 10 Employees Admit to Abusing Office Computers, Phones relays some stats from a recent Harris Interactive survey. Nearly 72 percent of workers ages 18 to 24 said they check personal e-mail accounts at work (compared to 61 percent of the general population), and 77 percent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Team Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/team-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->