Regarding Handedness, Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

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Multiple Choice

Regarding handedness, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) A small minority of lefties owe their hand preferences to birth traumas, such as prematurity, low birth weight, and breech birth.
• B) Left-handed persons have a significantly lower incidence of allergies and learning disorders than right-handed persons.
• C) People with mixed handedness may be at risk for more immune-related diseases than persons who are consistently left-handed.
• D) Collectivist cultures where left-handedness is viewed as especially negative have about half the proportion of left-handed persons as individualist cultures.

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