A subgroup classification of handedness, ordered for degrees of relative hand skill, was linearly related to the probability of nonright preference for foot and eye in a volunteer sample of 263 people from the general public. Percentages of people with a nonright-handed parent also differed over groups as expected but not significantly.
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