Handedness and Relative Age in International Elite Interactive Individual Sports Revisited.

ABSTRACT: Relative age effects (RAE) describe the unintended side effect of annual age grouping such that athletes born close to a specific cutoff date are more likely to be associated with attaining higher performance status than athletes born later. One factor suggested to override the RAE is handedness. Given the left-handers' rarity and their proposed performance advantage in interactive sports, left-handedness may be associated with a lower likelihood of suffering from selection inequalities like RAE in those sports compared with right-handedness. Here, in a two-study approach, we tested that hypothesis by examining male and female athletes from various interactive individual sports sampled over a 10-year period from 2007 to 2016. Study 1 investigated distributions of birth and handedness of se

SUBMITTER: Loffing F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8044324 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature