Saturday, May 26, 2012

What the frigging heck? Birth predicts handwriting!?

I'd guess Obama had a complicated birth.
Completely baffling gem: a study of 1,203 people concluded that birth complications raise the likelihood that the baby will eventually hold a pencil pointing toward himself (inverted) when he writes!  The effect is most pronounced in left-handed males ("The relationship between birth stress and writing hand posture" by Searleman, 1982).  Uhhh... what the heck?  The only logical tie I can imagine is that conditions causing birth complications might also correlate with neural... um...

Crap, I have no idea.  Weird.


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