title: Reliability of seasonal variation in births of left-handed women.
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.
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012621:Seasons; D012737:Sex Factors