Hands up if you have to make an “L” shape with your left hand to be 100% sure.
If you can't immediately tell your left from your right without using some kind of trick, you're not alone.
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Speaking to Outpatient Surgery magazine earlier this year, Professor John Clarke from Drexel University, Philadelphia, estimated that a fifth of people have the same issue, saying:
Twenty percent of the population has right and left confusion, meaning that they can't immediately tell their right from their left without having to think about it first. That means if I say, "Raise your right hand" to a group of people, 20% might raise their left or have to take a few moments to think about it.
In a study of 1,182 college students, 26% reported having difficulty telling the difference between left and right occasionally, frequently, or all of the time. In a study of 364 university faculty members, 19% reported the same thing.
Either way, it's somewhere around 1 in 5 – and that's a sizable number of people.
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