Reliability of Seasonal Variation in Births of Left-Handed Women
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 50 (1) , 81-82
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1980.50.1.81
Abstract
Recently Leviton and Kilty reported that the birth dates of left-handed girls in elementary school display a seasonal trend which peaks in November. We report here a failure to replicate this finding for 257 male and 323 female college students. Further, we have considered the likelihood that the original finding was due to sampling error rather than speculating that environmental factors associated with the season of birth are implicated in the etiology of left-handedness, as Leviton and Kilty have stated.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Seasonal Variation in the Birth of Left-handed SchoolgirlsArchives of Neurology, 1979
- Patterns of Hand Preference in a Student PopulationCortex, 1975
- The recognition and estimation of cyclic trendsAnnals of Human Genetics, 1961