If you're left-handed, you're prone to schizophrenia.

[ClazzD]

James Watson, the man who discovered the structure of DNA, hypothesized this and said that this was the best guess. In one of their experiments it showed that 30% of all schizophrenic people were left-handed but genetically 60% of people are left-handed but only half of them show.

What are your thoughts on this?

I'm left-handed

 

[SharPhoe]

Well, that... explains quite a bit.
I'm left-handed, and for years, I would hear a random voice call my name every once in a blue moon. Then again, that's really all I ever hear in my head. Does hearing just one thing still count as schizophrenia?

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I think that I don't believe it.
As far as I know, I am right handed, yet I still need to find out how to get rid of another personality...
Or maybe I am secretly left handed, but I pretend to be right handed... and kill people with my left hand... wait, what?

 

[Frequen-Z]

I'm a lefty. I doubt I'm schizophrenic though. I heard a statistic in a similar vein that something like 45% of serial killers are left handed, but I don't know how true that is.

 

[Legion]

I don't think statistics are anything to go by. Left handed people are also supposed to be more frequently genius's as well as a whole bunch of other things.

I think that I don't believe it.
As far as I know, I am right handed, yet I still need to find out how to get rid of another personality...
Or maybe I am secretly left handed, but I pretend to be right handed... and kill people with my left hand... wait, what?

Schizophrenia =/= Multiple Personality Disorder.

Although your post did make me laugh.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Oooh, what a clever study!

Let's see how many white people have schizophrenia! Or how many of them are Arabic!

Let's count their hair, see what film genre they like the most and ask if they prefer cake over pie!

Then we can see if Pie-lovers have a bigger chance of being schizo than cake-lovers!!!!

[sub]In case you couldn't tell, I think this is fucking bullshit[/sub]

 

[Deleted]

According to Yahoo Asnwers if you're right OR left handed you're schizophrenic.

By the way I'm diagnosed with it so its okay for me to crack jokes about it

 

[Monocle Man]

Lies and slander!
If I'm schizophrenic, then I would be too. Seriously, you're all crazy.

 

[Daveman]

I don't know, sounds more like a random correlation. This doesn't smell like good science whoever the guy who suggested it is. It's more likely it's been distorted by the media to be provocative. Just like the Daily Mail does with anything causing cancer... join the facebook group! http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=269512464297&ref=mf

 

[Cmwissy]

Lies and slander!
If I'm schizophrenic, then I would be too. Seriously, you're all crazy.

I think that I don't believe it.
As far as I know, I am right handed, yet I still need to find out how to get rid of another personality...
Or maybe I am secretly left handed, but I pretend to be right handed... and kill people with my left hand... wait, what?

Can I just point out before people make a common, yet incredibly stupid popular mistake.


Schizophrenia does not equal Multiple personality disorder.


It's hallucinations, delusions, paranoia and thought disorder.

 

[Queen Michael]

Lies and slander!
If I'm schizophrenic, then I would be too. Seriously, you're all crazy.

It could be that I'm stupid, but you're gonna have to explain what you mean with this post.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Ad hoc ergo propter hoc

I'm left handed and only slightly crazy.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Source or it didn't happen.

 

[Monocle Man]

Lies and slander!
If I'm schizophrenic, then I would be too. Seriously, you're all crazy.

It could be that I'm stupid, but you're gonna have to explain what you mean with this post.

The article said left-handed people are more prone to be schizophrenic.
==> I'm left-handed, they said I have schizophrenia (over-dramatising)
Then I acted as if I was schizophrenic and tried to hide it by proving I wasn't (while also referencing a song by Voltaire)
"If I'm schizophrenic, then I am too". "I" stands for the two personalities.

Then I said you're all crazy to make the people who would accuse me of being schizophrenic ponder about why they're crazy.

 

[AvsJoe]

I have voices in my head but I'm right handed. I'm very right handed by the way; I can barely hold a pencil in my left hand, let alone write with it.

 

[VanityGirl]

Left handed people are also more spacially aware of their surroundings and have faster reaction times.
We're basically crazy super humans.

No voices in my head, but I am a lefthanded super human.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

James Watson, the man who discovered the structure of DNA, hypothesized this and said that this was the best guess. In one of their experiments it showed that 30% of all schizophrenic people were left-handed but genetically 60% of people are left-handed but only half of them show.

What are your thoughts on this?

I'm left-handed

My invisible friends think you're crazy. I'm right handed, and also a little sceptical about the hypothesis. Especially since 70% of the schizophrenics tested, you, know, WEREN'T LEFT HANDED

 

[ma55ter_fett]

I call bullsh** on this one, just because a scientist thinks there may be a link doesn't mean there is one. Any possable link would need to be tested and be supported by a mountain of data before I would belive it.

 

[Femaref]

There are so many factors influencing either thing, so you can't just reduce it to such a statement.