265 People Reaching for the Wrong Scissors

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The Netherlands has one of the world's highest reported left-handedness rates — around 13-14%, tied with the US and UK at the top of the global distribution. In a crowd of 2,000 Dutch people, roughly 265 are left-handed. The Dutch rate reflects an absence of historical suppression: Dutch schools never systematically retrained left-handed children, and the country's pragmatic culture frames handedness as a neutral trait rather than something to correct.