Fancy That Friday – A Southpaw’s Earning Power

I heard this report on NPR awhile back (okay, a long while back) and knew I had to share it some Friday. Click here if you’d rather listen to it instead…

Morning Edition, August 11, 2006 · Congratulations to left-handed men! And not just because this Sunday (August 13) is International Left-Handers Day, but because a new study shows southpaws are richer than righties, 15 percent richer for left-handed men who attended college, and 26 percent richer if they graduated. Researchers at Lafayette College and Johns Hopkins University can't explain the wage difference, and they don't know why women lefties don't have the same advantage.