Right- and left-hand skill: failure of the right shift model.
Annett's right shift model of the distribution of skill asymmetry, and of the genetics of handedness, is examined in relation to several sets of data. It is found to be a less adequate description than is the more intuitively obvious 'symmetric bimodal' model, which is described in this paper.
D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014956:Writing