MYTHS UNDOING HANDED
17/06/2014
Even with the large amount of media and information in which we are involved, urban legends and myths persist. They are inherent in the culture elements. Some disappear, others come and others change over time.
Maintain a critical attitude with all the data that we receive is virtually impossible. We can not always get to see, and sentence by sentence, other than we just say a person is true or not. As much as we dislike, we must accept the fact that we always maintain a degree of naivety.
Other causes of myths and urban legends would be misunderstandings, confusions, double entenders and even misunderstood ironies. Double reading we can draw a sentence is often the cause of an erroneous extrapolation.
Like everyone else, I believed (and still believe insurance) in various myths and legends. But curiosity has made time go by discarding many of them to discover that they were actually wrong. The myth of the shorter life expectancy for being left-handed is one of them.
But this myth has some peculiar features. We will leave aside the fact that most lefties (10-13% of the population) we really care about whether to have this quality we will live fewer years for it. Thing, especially as I'm not makes me laugh, I do not know the others.
Dissemination of the Myth
The truth is I was intrigued by the origin of the myth, which is already supposed to be multiple for a number of reasons. Curiosity, persistence and Google did the rest to find him. I have not found a single Web in Spanish rejecting the myth, no. And in the English websites, only one of many. Grace is that by rejecting the myth Web there are thousands of them to reaffirm it as proven fact.
Here we give some examples:
In the Spanish blogosphere. The myth that right-handers live nine years longer than left-handed. Ranked as scientific fact and something that you should know:
Myth Lefties in blogosphere
In Spanish websites:
Myth Lefties in Spanish Webs
Internet is the perfect tool to check the spread and height of a myth in society. The radical rise of blogs increases much reliability as it allows the ideas, beliefs and information about each person remain recorded in writing. Using statistical studies picaresque saved. That although the statistics are more accurate, they are also more easily manipulated.
